Management of pituitary apoplexy: Clinical experience with 40 patients

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-157

  Lubina, A ^a,b   Olchovsky, D ^a,b   Berezin, M ^a,b   Ram, Z ^a,b   Hadani, M ^a,b   Shimon, I ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apoplexy; Hypopituitarism; Pituitary adenoma; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHENOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, LOW;

EID: 12944305621     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-004-0413-2     Document Type: Article

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