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Pituitary apoplexy historical perspective
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Pituitary apoplexy was first discovered by Pearce Bailey in the year 1898. In 1905, Leopold Bleibtreu recorded the postmortem examination of a 21-year-old acromegalic patient, in whom he discovered that the pituitary gland had been replaced by an old hemorrhage. The term pituitary apoplexy was coined by Brougham, Heusner, and Adams in 1950.
Historical perspective
Historical perspective
Discovery
- In 1898, Pearce Bailey, an American neurologist, discovered pituitary apoplexy.
- In 1905, Leopold Bleibtreu, a German physicist, performed the first postmortem examination on a patient with pituitary apoplexy.
- In 1950, Brougham, Heusner, and Adams from the Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School coined the term “pituitary apoplexy”.[1]
Landmark Events in the Development of Treatment Strategies
Landmark Events in the Development of Treatment Strategies
- In 1925, the first surgery for pituitary apoplexy was performed.
References
References
- ↑ BROUGHAM M, HEUSNER AP, ADAMS RD (1950). “Acute degenerative changes in adenomas of the pituitary body–with special reference to pituitary apoplexy”. J. Neurosurg. 7 (5): 421–39. doi:10.3171/jns.1950.7.5.0421. PMID 14774761.
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