Chiasmal syndrome due to intrasellar abscess.
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Neelon, FA; Mahaley, MS
Published in: Arch Intern Med
September 1976
A 43-year-old woman had diabetes insipidus and amenorrhea. There was panhypopituitarism on endocrine testing and visual field examination showed inexorably progressive loss to bitemporal hemianopsia. All radiographic findings were normal, but craniotomy disclosed the cause of this chiasmal syndrome to be an intrasellar abscess which, on culture, grew a Gram-positive anaerobe, Peptococcus. Intrasellar or pituitary abscess is rare, but it must always be considered in the differential diagnosis of the chiasmal syndrome, since loss of pituitary and visual function may occur much more rapidly than with the tumors most often responsible for this syndrome and since surgical cure is possible.
Duke Scholars
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Arch Intern Med
ISSN
0003-9926
Publication Date
September 1976
Volume
136
Issue
9
Start / End Page
1041 / 1043
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Visual Fields
- Vision Disorders
- Sella Turcica
- Prolactin
- Peptococcus
- Optic Nerve Diseases
- Optic Chiasm
- Humans
- General & Internal Medicine
- Female
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Neelon, F. A., & Mahaley, M. S. (1976). Chiasmal syndrome due to intrasellar abscess. Arch Intern Med, 136(9), 1041–1043.
Neelon, F. A., and M. S. Mahaley. “Chiasmal syndrome due to intrasellar abscess.” Arch Intern Med 136, no. 9 (September 1976): 1041–43.
Neelon FA, Mahaley MS. Chiasmal syndrome due to intrasellar abscess. Arch Intern Med. 1976 Sep;136(9):1041–3.
Neelon, F. A., and M. S. Mahaley. “Chiasmal syndrome due to intrasellar abscess.” Arch Intern Med, vol. 136, no. 9, Sept. 1976, pp. 1041–43.
Neelon FA, Mahaley MS. Chiasmal syndrome due to intrasellar abscess. Arch Intern Med. 1976 Sep;136(9):1041–1043.
Published In
Arch Intern Med
ISSN
0003-9926
Publication Date
September 1976
Volume
136
Issue
9
Start / End Page
1041 / 1043
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- Visual Fields
- Vision Disorders
- Sella Turcica
- Prolactin
- Peptococcus
- Optic Nerve Diseases
- Optic Chiasm
- Humans
- General & Internal Medicine
- Female