Primary central nervous system lymphoma mimicking pituitary apoplexy: Case report

Pituitary

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-79

  Quintero Wolfe, Stacey ^a   Hood, Brian ^a   Barker, Jennifer ^a   Benveniste, Ronald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoplexy; Pituitary; Primary central nervous system lymphoma

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; METHOTREXATE; PROCARBAZINE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PTOSIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY APOPLEXY;

EID: 59149105663     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-008-0084-8     Document Type: Article

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