Lymphocytic adenohypophysitis mimicking a pituitary macroadenoma

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 112-116

  Alexiadou Rudolf, Chariklia ^a   Hildebrandt, Gerhard ^b   Schröder, Roland ^c   Ernestus, Ralf Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lymphocytic adenohypophysitis; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary surgery

Indexed keywords

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADENOMA; ADULT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0033945603     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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