Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature

Pituitary tumour have a wide way of presentation. Epistaxis due to pituitary adenoma has been rarely reported. There is no report of bleeding from nose as clinical first presentation in a child. We report the first case in literature where a child had epistaxis for eight months before deterioration...

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Autores principales: Chaurasia, Pramod Kumar, Singh, Daljit, Meher, Sujeet, Saran, R. K., Singh, Hukum
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22408665
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.92840
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author Chaurasia, Pramod Kumar
Singh, Daljit
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Singh, Hukum
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description Pituitary tumour have a wide way of presentation. Epistaxis due to pituitary adenoma has been rarely reported. There is no report of bleeding from nose as clinical first presentation in a child. We report the first case in literature where a child had epistaxis for eight months before deterioration of vision. He was found to be having a invasive prolactinoma with normal prolactin levels.
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spelling pubmed-32964102012-03-09 Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature Chaurasia, Pramod Kumar Singh, Daljit Meher, Sujeet Saran, R. K. Singh, Hukum J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Pituitary tumour have a wide way of presentation. Epistaxis due to pituitary adenoma has been rarely reported. There is no report of bleeding from nose as clinical first presentation in a child. We report the first case in literature where a child had epistaxis for eight months before deterioration of vision. He was found to be having a invasive prolactinoma with normal prolactin levels. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3296410/ /pubmed/22408665 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.92840 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature
title Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature
title_full Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature
title_short Epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: Case report and review of literature
title_sort epistaxis as first clinical presentation in a child with giant prolactinoma: case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22408665
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.92840
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