Adenoma related pituitary apoplexy disclosed by ptosis after routine cardiac surgery: Occasional reappearance of a dismal complication

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 185-186

  Telesca, Mariassunta ^a   Santini, Francesco ^a   Mazzucco, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN EDEMA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERFUSION; PTOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HORMONES; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STEROIDS;

EID: 58549084770     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1285-3     Document Type: Letter

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