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Pituitary Apoplexy Following Cardiac Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Karim Mukhida  and
George Kolyvas
Karim Mukhida
Affiliation:
The Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
George Kolyvas
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University and Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , August 2007 , pp. 390 - 393
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