Resolution of diabetes insipidus following gamma knife surgery for a solitary metastasis to the pituitary stalk: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1053-1056

  Piedra, Mark P ^b   Brown, Paul D ^b   Carpenter, Paul C ^b   Link, Michael J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Gamma knife surgery; Metastasis; Pituitary stalk

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; EXEMESTANE; LETROZOLE; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFUNDIBULUM; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY STALK METASTASIS; POLYDIPSIA; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; BREAST TUMOR; FATALITY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY;

EID: 16544394813     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.101.6.1053     Document Type: Article

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