UK guidelines for the management of pituitary apoplexy Pituitary Apoplexy Guidelines Development Group: May 2010

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-20

  Rajasekaran, Senthil ^a   Vanderpump, Mark ^b   Baldeweg, Stephanie ^c   Drake, Will ^d   Reddy, Narendra ^a   Lanyon, Marian ^c   Markey, Andrew ^e   Plant, Gordon ^c   Powell, Michael ^f   Sinha, Saurabh ^g   Wass, John ^a  

^a CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e LISTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY GLAND;

EID: 78650408117     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03913.x     Document Type: Article

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