Diabetes insípida como primera manifestación de metástasis hipofisaria / Insipid diabetes as first sign of pituitary metastasis
Rev. chil. endocrinol. diabetes
;
10(3): 100-102, jul. 2017. ilus
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in Spanish
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ABSTRACT
Introducción: Diabetes insipidus as the first clinical manifestation of pituitary neoplasm metastasis Up to de 90 percent of the masses that are detected in the pituitary gland correspond to adenomas. On the contrary, pituitary metastasis only represent a 1 percent, which is a diagnostic challenge in the medical practice. Most of the time, these lesions are detected casually in autopsy; but it is important to consider that aproximatelly a 7 percent of these lesions can be clinically expresed as diabetes insipidus. Here we present a patient with initial symptoms of diabetes insipidus with the final diagnostic of lung adenocarcinoma
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Main subject:
Pituitary Neoplasms
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Adenocarcinoma
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Diabetes Insipidus
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Lung Neoplasms
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. chil. endocrinol. diabetes
Journal subject:
Endocrinology
Year:
2017
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Spain
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet/ES
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