Classical pituitary tumour apoplexy: Clinical features, management and outcomes in a series of 24 patients

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-70

  Dubuisson, Annie S ^a   Beckers, Albert ^a   Stevenaert, Achille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cabergolin; Pituitary adenoma; Pituitary apoplexy; Pituitary diseases; Sella turcica; Trans sphenoidal approach

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CABERGOLINE; CORTISONE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; SEX HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIOTOMY; DEATH; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELLA TURCICA; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SPHENOID; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VOMITING;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845186809     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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