Isolated sixth cranial nerve palsy as the presenting symptom of a rapidly expanding ACTH positive pituitary adenoma: a case report

BACKGROUND: Pituitary adenoma may present with neuro-ophthalmic manifestations and, typically, rapid tumor expansion is the result of apoplexy. Herein, we present the first case of an isolated sixth cranial nerve palsy as initial feature of a rapidly expanding ACTH positive silent tumor without apop...

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Autores principales: Saffra, Norman, Kaplow, Elizabeth, Mikolaenko, Irina, Kim, Alice, Rubin, Benjamin, Jafar, Jafar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21272327
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-11-4

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