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| Year : 2003 | Volume
: 51
| Issue : 1 | Page : 110--111 |
Cerebral salt wasting syndrome in a patient with a pituitary adenoma
SK Singh, AG Unnikrishnan, VS Reddy, RK Sahay, SK Bhadada, JK Agrawal
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India
Correspondence Address:
S K Singh
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005
India
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PMID: 12865538 
Cerebral salt wasting syndrome (CSWS) is often an unrecognized cause of hyponatremia that occurs in the setting of intracranial lesions. It is important to differentiate CSWS from the syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion, as this would alter the management of hyponatremia. We describe a case of CSWS that occurred in association with a nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma.
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