Pituitary tuberculosis presenting as pituitary apoplexy

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 338-339

  Deogaonkar, Milind ^a   De, Rahul ^b   Sil, Kaushik ^b   Das, Sisir ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b National Neurosciences Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADENOMA; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PTOSIS; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOMA, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 33745054859     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2005.05.008     Document Type: Letter

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