Acute management of pituitary apoplexy - Surgery or conservative management?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 747-752

  Ayuk, John ^a   McGregor, Elisabeth J ^a   Mitchell, Rosalind D ^a   Gittoes, Neil J L ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; MALE; MENINGISM; NAUSEA; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR GROWTH; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID HORMONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10844268665     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02162.x     Document Type: Article

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