Expert opinion: Headache and pituitary tumors

Headache

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 280-283

  Evans, Randolph W ^a   Levy, Miles J ^b  

^a Leicester Royal Infirmary ^*  (United States)

^b LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IBUPROFEN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGASM; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38749095503     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.01020.x     Document Type: Note

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