Minerva medica
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Eighteen patients aged between 14 and 60 years suffering from diabetes insipidus were studied. Diabetes insipidus was diagnosed by means of Robertson's test. All patients underwent C. ⋯ C.) damage. In same cases the presence of hyperprolactinaemia suggests a brain damage. Therefore neuroradiological study is very important in all cases of neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus.
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The nervous system is the most common site for the development of solid neoplasms in children. The most frequent oncotype is the pilocytic astrocytoma, followed by the medulloblastoma. Primitive undifferentiated neuroectodermal tumors occur primarily in childhood; problems of pathogenesis of these neoplasms are discussed, as well as their relationship with central nervous system development.