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Pituitary Apoplexy.
Neurosurgery clinics of North America
  • Garni Barkhoudarian, John Wayne Cancer Institute Santa Monica, California.
  • Daniel F Kelly, Pacific Neuroscience Institute, Brain Tumor Center & Pituitary Disorders Program, John Wayne Cancer Institute at Providence Saint John's Health Center, 2200 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90404, USA.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2019
Disciplines
Abstract

Pituitary apoplexy is a clinical condition with acute-onset headaches, vision loss, and/or pituitary dysfunction associated with a hemorrhagic or infarcted pituitary tumor or cyst. Treatment varies based on clinical presentation, although often urgent or emergent surgical resection is indicated. Conservative treatment strategies tend to be applied for more mild conditions of apoplexy. Overall outcomes may be similar in this less severe cohort. Acute-onset vision loss with apoplexy should be treated with urgent or emergent surgical evacuation of hematoma and resection of tumor when possible.

Area of Special Interest
Cancer
Specialty/Research Institute
Oncology
Specialty/Research Institute
Neurosciences
Citation Information
Garni Barkhoudarian and Daniel F Kelly. "Pituitary Apoplexy." Neurosurgery clinics of North America (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel-kelly/243/