Pituitary Metastasis from Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder Mimicking Pituitary Apoplexy: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 165-168

  Furuta, Shigeru ^a   Hatakeyama, Takao ^a   Zenke, Kiichiro ^a   Fukumoto, Shinya ^b  

^a Uwajima City Hospital   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

intratumoral hemorrhage; pituitary apoplexy; pituitary metastasis; transitional cell carcinoma; urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; HEADACHE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; MALE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 0032936169     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.39.165     Document Type: Article

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