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Conservative treatment cures an elderly pituitary apoplexy patient with oculomotor paralysis and optic nerve compression: a case report and systematic review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Whether conservative treatment or surgical management is the most appropriate treatment for pituitary apoplexy (PA) is controversial. In general, if severe symptoms of compression occur, such as oculomotor nerve palsy, neurosurgery is performed to relieve the compression of anatomical st...

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Autores principales: Fan, Yanghua, Bao, Xinjie, Wang, Renzhi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6188166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30349217
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S181109