Loss of vision due to a physiologic pituitary enlargement during normal pregnancy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1049-1051

  Inoue, Toshihiro ^a   Hotta, Akihiro ^b   Awai, Maiko ^a   Tanihara, Hidenobu ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hotta Eye Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enlargement; Pituitary; Pregnancy; Vision

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; HYPOPHYSIS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIMETRY; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROLACTIN; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 35748968526     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0491-3     Document Type: Article

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