Haematological, neurological and psychiatric complications of chronic hypothermia following surgery for craniopharyngioma.
A patient is described who became poikilothermic following surgery for removal of a craniopharyngioma. Episodes of disturbed behaviour, neurological abnormalities, pancytopenia and deranged liver function could be correlated with episodes of more profound hypothermia on a background of a chronically lowered core temperature. The association of pancytopenia and neuropsychiatric disturbances with hypothermia is discussed with reference to reported cases of periodic spontaneous hypothermia.
Griffiths
A P
AP
Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Infirmary, Leeds, UK.
Henderson
M
M
Penn
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Tindall
H
H
D000328:Adult; D001519:Behavior; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D010198:Pancytopenia / Q000150:complications; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed