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Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report

Pituitary apoplexy is a rare disease followed by ischemic or hemorrhagic process within the pituitary adenoma. Here, we report two cases of pituitary apoplexy with a history of sudden onset of headache, vomiting, and diminished vision. Our aim is to share our experience and discuss these cases as fo...

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Autores principales: Nagure, Pramod Vaijnath, Nikam, Vasudha Ravindra, Garud, Amit Sambhaji
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459913
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_90_18
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author Nagure, Pramod Vaijnath
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description Pituitary apoplexy is a rare disease followed by ischemic or hemorrhagic process within the pituitary adenoma. Here, we report two cases of pituitary apoplexy with a history of sudden onset of headache, vomiting, and diminished vision. Our aim is to share our experience and discuss these cases as follows: the first one to know the compression of basilar artery along with the compression of basilar part of pons and in both the cases with compression of an internal carotid artery leading to cerebral infarcts.
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spelling pubmed-62082222018-11-20 Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report Nagure, Pramod Vaijnath Nikam, Vasudha Ravindra Garud, Amit Sambhaji Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Pituitary apoplexy is a rare disease followed by ischemic or hemorrhagic process within the pituitary adenoma. Here, we report two cases of pituitary apoplexy with a history of sudden onset of headache, vomiting, and diminished vision. Our aim is to share our experience and discuss these cases as follows: the first one to know the compression of basilar artery along with the compression of basilar part of pons and in both the cases with compression of an internal carotid artery leading to cerebral infarcts. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6208222/ /pubmed/30459913 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_90_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Nagure, Pramod Vaijnath
Nikam, Vasudha Ravindra
Garud, Amit Sambhaji
Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report
title Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report
title_full Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report
title_fullStr Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report
title_short Pituitary Apoplexy Producing Internal Carotid and Basilar Artery Compression: A Rare Case Report
title_sort pituitary apoplexy producing internal carotid and basilar artery compression: a rare case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459913
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_90_18
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