Reversible clinical and magnetic resonance imaging of central pontine myelinolysis following surgery for craniopharyngioma: Serial magnetic resonance imaging studies - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 120-123

  Kawahara, Ichiro ^a   Tokunaga, Yoshiharu ^a   Ishizaka, Shunsuke ^a   Yagi, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a Nagasaki Prefectural Shimabara Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central pontine myelinolysis; Craniopharyngioma; Hyponatremia; Prognosis; Serial magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN ACETATE; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRIPLEGIA; SEIZURE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; URINE VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS, NEUROGENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINOLYSIS, CENTRAL PONTINE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SEIZURES;

EID: 65949097961     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.120     Document Type: Article

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