title: Haematological, neurological and psychiatric complications of chronic hypothermia following surgery for craniopharyngioma.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, General Infirmary, Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: N D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Penn
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tindall
mesh_terms: 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