a fsh-secreting pituitary macroadenoma causing a testosterone deficiency syndrome

A FSH-Secreting Pituitary Macroadenoma Causing A Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome

A FSH-Secreting Pituitary Macroadenoma Causing A Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome

FSH-secreting pituitary adenomas can affect sexual and reproductive function. In this article, we have reported the case of a 32-year-old male with secondary infertility. The patient had sexual and reproductive disturbances. The test results of the blood samples indicated obviously decreased testosterone (T) and estradiol (E2) levels. Based on previous hormonal results, the patient received pit...

TSH-Secreting Pituitary Macroadenoma in a Girl with Lingual Thyroid

Patients with long-standing hypothyroid are, in some cases, reported to develop pituitary gland hyperplasia due to loss of feedback inhibition of thyroxine in hypothalamus-the condition of which typically regresses after thyroxine replacement. Herein, a 15-year-old girl-with long-standing untreated lingual hypothyroid-presents with a pathologically proven TSH pituitary macroadenoma and bilatera...

Dense calcification in a GH-secreting pituitary macroadenoma

UNLABELLED A 30-year-old female presented with a history of secondary amenorrhoea, acromegalic features and progressive visual deterioration. She had elevated serum IGF1 levels and unsuppressed GH levels after an oral glucose tolerance test. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a heterogeneously enhancing space-occupying lesion with atypical extensive calcification within the sellar and suprasel...

Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome Associated with Pituitary Macroadenoma: A Case Report

Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome (RSTS) is an autosomal dominant disorder that is classically characterized by prenatal and postnatal growth restriction, microcephaly, dysmorphic craniofacial features, broad thumbs and toes, and intellectual disability. We describe the first reported case of a pituitary macroadenoma associated with RSTS. A 39-year-old Caucasian female with a past medical history of RS...

Harlequin syndrome post-transsphenoidal pituitary macroadenoma surgery.

A 45-year-old woman, with a history of asymmetric facial flushing, was presented to the Endocrinology Unit after pituitary macroadenoma removal. After other pathological entities had been ruled out, she was diagnosed with harlequin syndrome following a lesion of the postganglionic sympathetic fibers during transsphenoidal pituitary macroadenoma surgery. We herein report the first case of harleq...