Citation

Oliveira MA, Araújo JF, Melro CA, Balbo RJ. Arq. Neuropsiquiatr. 1993; 51(4): 554-559.

Vernacular Title

Diabetes insipidus traumatico: relato de caso.

Affiliation

Departamento de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM), Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCCAMP), SP, Brasil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Associacao Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquitria)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8147763

Abstract

This case report refers to a thirty-nine years old female patient with severe head injury and other body injuries who developed symptoms of diabetes insipidus. The patient died eleven days after hospital admission during which magnetic resonance imaging and computerized tomography were done, showing characteristic hypothalamic lesions. This stimulated the authors to review the literature and call attention to the prevention and prognosis of endocrine syndromes which may appear in patients secondarily and late, and whose morbidity may be decreased with early diagnosis and treatment.

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