Hypothalamic germinoma masquerading as superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vethakkan, Shireene R ^a   Venugopal, Yogeswari ^b   Tan, Alexander T B ^a   Paramasivam, Sharmila S ^a   Ratnasingam, Jeyakantha ^a   Razak, Rohaya A ^c   Alias, Azmi ^b   Kassim, Fauziah ^b   Choong, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MIRTAZAPINE; TESTOSTERONE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANOREXIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CACHEXIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GERM CELL TUMOR; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HYPOPITUITARISM; HYPOTHALAMIC GERMINOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THYROTOXICOSIS; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADULT; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881524397     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP12218.CR     Document Type: Article

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