Traumatic diabetes insipidus: a case report
Oliveira, M.A.; Araújo, J.F.; Melro, C.A.; Balbo, R.J.
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria 51(4): 554-559
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-282X PMID: 8147763 Document Number: 422089
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.