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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Unusual bifrontal cerebral infarction related to pituitary apoplexy. An uncommon presentation and literature review.

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2022


Surg Neurol Int


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36600731?dopt=Abstract


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Unusual bifrontal cerebral infarction related to pituitary apoplexy. An uncommon presentation and literature review.

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Unusual bifrontal cerebral infarction related to pituitary apoplexy. An uncommon presentation and literature review.
Holanda TSF, Pimentel I M F, Araujo P V F G, da Silva Damasceno Gomes J Í, de Morais Moreira V C, Soares T B S, de Albuquerque L A F
Surg Neurol Int. 2022; 13:577.
PMID: 36600731.

Abstract

Pituitary apoplexy (PA) is a syndromic condition described in 1950. The main symptoms are headache, visual impairment, ophthalmoplegia, and hypopituitarism. The relationship between stroke and PA is uncommon and two mechanisms are described: vascular compression and vasospasm.
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