Lymphocytic hypophysitis with central diabetes insipidus and subsequent hypopituitarism masking a suprasellar germinoma in a 13-year-old girl

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1338-1343

  Mikami Terao, Yoko ^a   Akiyama, Masaharu ^a   Yanagisawa, Takaaki ^a   Takahashi Fujigasaki, Junko ^a   Yokoi, Kentaro ^a   Fukuoka, Kohei ^a   Sakuma, Mio ^a   Miyata, Ichiro ^a   Fujisawa, Kohji ^a   Oi, Shizuo ^a   Eto, Yoshikatsu ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Germinoma; Hypopituitarism; Lymphocytic hypophysitis

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLLITROPIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREDNISOLONE; THYROXINE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFUNDIBULUM; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTIC HYPOPHYSITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS, NEUROGENIC; FEMALE; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; LYMPHOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR;

EID: 33749029931     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0078-7     Document Type: Article

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