Pituitary Apoplexy and Hemifield Slide Phenomenon

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Identifier Pituitary_Apoplexy_and_Hemifield_2015
Title Pituitary Apoplexy and Hemifield Slide Phenomenon
Creator Helen H. Yeung, MD; Rudrani Banik, MD
Affiliation (HHY) (RB) New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, NY, NY
Subject Pituitary Apoplexy; Hemifield Slide; Bitemporal Defect; Partial Third Nerve Palsy
Description PowerPoint of case presentation of pituitary apoplexy. Patient presented with bilateral severe visual loss and bilateral ophthalmoplegia from partial third nerve palsies (pupil-sparing with no ptosis) from midbrain compression. After transsphenoidal surgery with decompression of mass and steroids, visual acuity improved but still with bitemporal visual field defect. Partial third nerve palsies resolved but patient symptomatic from diplopia, then diagnosed as hemifield slide phenomenon from small exophoria.
Date 2015
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Format Creation Microsoft PowerPoint
Type Text
Collection Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NOVEL http://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah, 10 N 1900 E SLC, UT 84112-5890
Rights Management Copyright 2015. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s68d34wk
Setname ehsl_novel_novel
ID 187607
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68d34wk
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