Spontaneous resolution of diabetes insipidus after pituitary stalk sectioning during surgery for large craniopharyngioma - Endocrinological evaluation and clinical implications for surgical strategy

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 126-134

  Nishizawa, Shigeru ^a   Ohta, Seiji ^a   Oki, Yutaka ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Craniopharyngioma; Diabetes insipidus; Endocrinology; Pituitary stalk; Surgery

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; DESMOPRESSIN; HYDROCORTISONE; THYROID HORMONE; VASOPRESSIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFUNDIBULUM; KIDNEY TUBULE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; URINE OSMOLALITY; URINE VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 33645297633     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.126     Document Type: Article

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