Pituitary apoplexy: Evaluation, management, and prognosis

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 456-461

  Murad Kejbou, Sally ^a   Eggenberger, Eric ^a  

^a East Lansing   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoplexy; Cranial nerve palsy; Diplopia; Headache; Hypopituitarism; Pituitary adenoma; Visual field deficits

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; HYDROCORTISONE;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIPLOPIA; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 74249086490     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICU.0b013e3283319061     Document Type: Review

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