FAMILIAL HYPOPITUITARISM ASSOCIATED WITH AN ENLARGED PITUITARY FOSSA AND AN EMPTY SELLA
作者:
M. C. WHITE,
P. CHAHAL,
L. BANKS,
G. F. JOPLIN,
期刊:
Clinical Endocrinology
(WILEY Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 1
页码: 63-70
ISSN:0300-0664
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2265.1986.tb03255.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
SUMMARYWe report an 8‐year follow‐up of three sisters born of a consanguineous marriage and who originally presented with short stature and enlarged pituitary fossa. All have shown progressive failure of anterior pituitary hormone function. In addition, the two eldest sisters were eventually found to have an empty sella while the youngest, who initially showed an enhancing intrasellar mass consistent with a tumour, later showed an empty sella. A familial pituitary tumour developing early in childhood but subsequently undergoing involution could account for these findi
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