title: [Traumatic diabetes insipidus: a case report].
abstract: This case report refers to a thirty-nine years old female patient with severe head injury and other body injuries who developed symptoms of diabetes insipidus. The patient died eleven days after hospital admission during which magnetic resonance imaging and computerized tomography were done, showing characteristic hypothalamic lesions. This stimulated the authors to review the literature and call attention to the prevention and prognosis of endocrine syndromes which may appear in patients secondarily and late, and whose morbidity may be decreased with early diagnosis and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM), Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUCCAMP), SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Melro
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Balbo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Diabetes insipidus traumático: relato de caso.