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Pituitary apoplexy secondary to metastatic breast carcinoma into a gonadotroph cell adenoma of the pituitary

Mark T. Millsa Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United KingdomORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5425-7739
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Stephen B. Whartonb Department of Neuropathology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Daniel J. Connollyc Department of Neuroradiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Showkat Mirzad Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Saurabh Sinhaa Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United KingdomCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 643-646 | Received 15 Feb 2018, Accepted 22 Oct 2018, Published online: 26 Nov 2018

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