Endoscopic surgical treatment for pituitary apoplexy in three elderly patients over the age of 80

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum

Volumn , Issue 111, 2011, Pages 429-433

  Hasegawa, Yu ^a,b   Yano, Shigetoshi ^a   Sakurama, Tomotaka ^a   Ohmori, Yuki ^a   Kawano, Takayuki ^a   Morioka, Motohiro ^a   Chen, Hank ^b   Zhang, John H ^b   Kuratsu, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus; Elderly; Endoscopic surgery; Pituitary apoplexy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; AGED; ANOREXIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIPLOPIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; GOOD GENERAL CONDITION; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; MALE; NAUSEA; NECROSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTIC CHIASM; PNEUMONIA; PTOSIS; THYROID TUMOR; TISSUE ADHESION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL ACUITY; ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PITUITARY APOPLEXY;

EID: 79960671461     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: 00016268     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-0693-8_74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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