Isolated intrasellar tuberculoma mimicking pituitary adenoma

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 477-481

  Yilmazlar, Selcuk ^a   Bekar, Ahmet ^a   Taskapilioglu, Ozgur ^a   Tolunay, Sahsene ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Pituitary; Sellar; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; MORINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GALACTORRHEA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLAMMATION; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULOMA;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REVIEW LITERATURE; TUBERCULOMA;

EID: 33947402630     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2006.01.033     Document Type: Article

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