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| Year : 2005 | Volume
: 53
| Issue : 3 | Page : 326--328 |
Post operative 'pituitary apoplexy' in giant pituitary adenomas: A series of cases
Faiz U Ahmad, Paritosh Pandey, Ashok K Mahapatra
Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Ashok K Mahapatra
Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosciences center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.16933
This is report on four cases of giant pituitary tumors that developed postoperative pituitary apoplexy after they had undergone a partial tumor resection. Three patients had undergone surgery by a transsphenoid route and one patient underwent surgery by transcranial route. Postoperative CT scan showed hemorrhagic expansion of residual tumor mass. All the four patients were re-explored transcranially and hemorrhagic swelling of the tumor was observed. In three cases, the tumor had swollen to a size greater than twice the original tumor. All the four patients had a fatal outcome.
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