Panhypopituitarism due to metastases to the hypothalamus and the pituitary resulting from primary breast cancer: A case report and review of the literature

Clinical Breast Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Peppa, Melpomeni ^a   Papaxoinis, Georgios ^a   Xiros, Nikolaos ^a   Raptis, Sotirios A ^a   Economopoulos, Theofanis ^a   Hadjidakis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cranial dura; Diabetes insipidus; Hypothalamus; Infundibulum; Pituitary metastases

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LETROZOLE; TAMOXIFEN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MASTECTOMY;

EID: 73449120765     PISSN: 15268209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CBC.2009.n.047     Document Type: Article

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