Partial improvement of anterior pituitary deficiency following steroid treatment in a patient with neurosarcoidosis accompanied by central diabetes insipidus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2175-2179

  Tanaka, Ken Ichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Masahiro ^a   Okazaki, Kyoko ^a   Yamaguchi, Toru ^a   Sugimoto, Toshitsugu ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Hypopituitarism; Neurosarcoidosis; Steroid

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN; FOLLITROPIN; GADOLINIUM; GROWTH HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREDNISOLONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL DIABETES INSIPIDUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MAXILLA SINUS TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY STALK; POLYURIA; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SARCOIDOSIS; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DIABETES INSIPIDUS, NEUROGENIC; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SARCOIDOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84865129866     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6957     Document Type: Article

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