Prolactinoma during pregnancy causing compression symptoms responding to bromocriptine therapy.

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  • N J Saunders
چکیده

A woman with pituitary macroadenoma causing pressure symptoms and a partial right third cranial nerve palsy during pregnancy is described. Complete resolution occurred using oral bromocriptine therapy alone and the remainder of the pregnancy was uneventful.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Postgraduate medical journal

دوره 61 719  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1985