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- Title
A Case Report from the Ancient Past.
- Authors
Adams, William H.
- Abstract
Objective: Educational purpose Background: Standard translations of Hippocratic works are sometimes misleading because the translators knew less about their subject than did the ancient authors. Case Report: A new translation and explication of a chapter from a Hippocratic work of the fifth century before the Common Era (BCE), Diseases II, describes patients with pituitary apoplexy and subsequent myxedema, the 2 events separated by as much as 14 years. Conclusions: The association of myxedema with an intracranial event that occurred years earlier predates by 2400 years the causal association of a pituitary adenoma with hormonal deficiency.
- Subjects
EDUCATIONAL objectives; CEREBROVASCULAR disease; EDUCATIONAL background; HYPOPITUITARISM
- Publication
American Journal of Case Reports, 2019, Vol 20, p1907
- ISSN
1941-5923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12659/AJCR.919830