Publications by authors named "F Slovik"
Apoplexy of a pituitary macroadenoma as a severe complication of preoperative thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) testing.
Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes
October 1997
The case history of a 54-year-old male suffering from pituitary macroadenoma with suprasellar extension is reported. A TRH-test with 200 micrograms i.v.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSubarachnoid haemorrhage due to widely metastatising malignant ependymoma.
Neurochirurgia (Stuttg)
November 1985
Article Synopsis
- A 35-year-old man experienced a significant health crisis due to a malignant ependymoma that led to widespread metastases and severe spinal cord compression.
- The initial symptom was a massive subarachnoid bleed, which is an uncommon result of metastatic spinal cancer.
- The case also addresses classification challenges related to malignant ependymomas.
A 59 years old woman is presented with acromegaly caused by an adenoma of the hypophysis, mixed cell-type and with a meningioma fibromatosum localized centroparietally. Both tumours were operated successfully, first the meningioma was removed. The hormone levels did not change after the operation of the meningioma, but normalized after the removal of the hypophysis adenoma.
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