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We report a young child with central diabetes insipidus in whom the posterior lobe of the pituitary gave the high signal on T1-weighted MRI not generally seen in this disease.
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Demirci, A., Okten, A. & Gumele, H.R. Hyperintense posterior pituitary lobe in central diabetes insipidus. Neuroradiology 36, 380–381 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00612123
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00612123