Secondary pseudotumour cerebri in a patient undergoing sexual reassignment therapy

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 449-453

  Mowl, Ashley D ^a   Grogg, Jane Ann ^a   Klein, Judith ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANDROGEN; DIURETIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17 BETA CYPIONATE; TESTOSTERONE 17 BETA-CYPIONATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANDROGENS; DIURETICS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSSEXUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449106877     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2009.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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