Hypophysitis presenting with atypical rapid deterioration: With special reference to immunoglobulin G4-related disease - Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 622-625

  Osawa, Shinichiro ^a   Ogawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Watanabe, Mika ^b   Tominaga, Teiji ^b  

^a KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Granulomatous hypophysitis; Immunoglobulin G4; Rapid deterioration; Systemic immunoglobulin G4 related plasmacytic disease

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSITIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SARCOIDOSIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENCEPHALITIS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND; PLASMA CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION, LOW;

EID: 74049144588     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.622     Document Type: Article

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