Intracranial hypotension causing pituitary enlargement
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Intracranial hypotension causing pituitary enlargement.
Chan DWC, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220057 Description A woman aged 67 years was referred with pituitary enlargement identified on CT scan. Imaging was performed to investigate a progressive, incapacitating, 12-month history of nausea, vertigo, gait disturbance and recurrent falls. Her presentation included chronic occipitofrontal headaches, which had increased in severity ...
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From the Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Received January 10, 2005. Revised and Accepted January 21, 2005. Reprint requests and correspondence to: Sung-Tsang Hsieh. MD. Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Case Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2017-220057