title: Diabetes insipidus and occult intracranial tumours.
abstract: We describe four patients with intracranial tumours who presented with diabetes insipidus and subsequently developed an evolving anterior pituitary endocrinopathy. The delay in imaging the tumours varied between 2.1 and 11.2 years (mean 5.4 years).
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed