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Titel:

Visual loss without headache in children with pseudotumor cerebri and growth hormone treatment.

Dokumenttyp:
Journal Article; Article
Autor(en):
Besch, D; Makowski, C; Steinborn, MM; Bonfig, W; Sadowski, B
Abstract:
We report on two prepubescent girls with visual loss due to idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), or pseudotumor cerebri, both treated with recombinant human growth hormone for growth failure. The interval from starting hormone therapy to diagnosis of IIH was 3 and 18 months, respectively. Both girls did not complain of headache and nausea. They were neither obese nor did they suffer from renal insufficiency. In both patients, we observed bilateral optic disc edema with visual loss and ele...     »
Zeitschriftentitel:
Neuropediatrics
Jahr:
2013
Band / Volume:
44
Heft / Issue:
4
Seitenangaben Beitrag:
203-7
Sprache:
eng
Volltext / DOI:
doi:10.1055/s-0032-1330855
PubMed:
http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23275258
Print-ISSN:
0174-304X
TUM Einrichtung:
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin
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