Successful treatment of sellar aspergillus abscess

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1587-1589

  Liu, Wenke ^a   Chen, Haifeng ^a   Cai, Bowen ^a   Li, Guoping ^a   You, Chao ^a   Li, Hao ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Caspofungin; Sellar abscess; Transsphenoidal surgery; Voriconazole

Indexed keywords

CASPOFUNGIN; DESMOPRESSIN; GADOLINIUM; HORMONE; PARACETAMOL; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILATERAL HEMIANOPSIA; BILATERAL PAPILLEDEMA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ASPERGILLOSIS; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ABSCESS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPILLEDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELLAR ASPERGILLUS ABSCESS; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEAKNESS;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCANDINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROASPERGILLOSIS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 78049460398     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2010.03.040     Document Type: Article

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