Diencephalic syndrome of emaciation in an adult associated with a third ventricle intrinsic craniopharyngioma: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 224-227

  Miyoshi, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Yunoki, Masatoshi ^a   Yano, Akimasa ^a   Nishimoto, Ken ^a   Konovalov, Alexander N ^c  

^a Sumitomo Besshi Hospital   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adults; Craniopharyngioma; Diencephalic syndrome; Third ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIENCEPHALIC SYNDROME OF EMACIATION; DIENCEPHALON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMACIATION; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; THIRD VENTRICLE;

EID: 0037234497     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200301000-00029     Document Type: Article

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