SPONTANEOUS REGRESSION OF ENLARGEMENT OF THE SELLA TURCICA AND OF ASSOCIATED PANHYPOPITUITARY SYMPTOMS
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Acta Endocrinologica
- Vol. 85 (4) , 684-691
- https://doi.org/10.1530/acta.0.0850684
Abstract
The case history of a woman born in 1946 is given. In 1968 she developed a syndrome of headache, fever, elevated antistreptolysin titer, enlarged and ballooned sella turcica, hypothyroidism secondary to TSH [thyrotropin] deficiency, secondary amenorrhea of pituitary genesis, probable growth hormone deficiency, and secondary adrenocortical insufficiency. From 1972 on, all the pituitary defects of function disappeared, and the sella turcica gradually became normal in size as shown by X-ray examination.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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