Pituitary tumor apoplexy: A review

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-90

  Nawar, Rita N ^a   Abdelmannan, Dima ^a   Selman, Warren R ^a   Arafah, Baha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoplexy; Cranial nerve palsy; Headache; Hypopituitarism; Pituitary adenoma; Visual field deficits

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSION FLUID; PROTIRELIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR APOPLEXY; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTENSION; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIGRAINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATHKE CLEFT CYST; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SELLA TURCICA; SEX RATIO; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PRECIPITATING FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 41149135525     PISSN: 08850666     EISSN: 15251489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0885066607312992     Document Type: Review

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