title: [Value of MRI in various forms of idiopathic growth hormone deficiency].
abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the sellar and juxta sellar area was performed in 40 children with idiopathic hypopituitarism. MRI was normal in the 17 patients with partial growth hormone (GH) deficiency and in the 5 patients with GH neurosecretory dysfunction. Among the 18 patients with complete GH deficiency, the 10 with pituitary stalk transection presented more often with perinatal abnormalities, had the most severe GH deficiencies and more frequently multiple hormone deficiencies, in particular TSH deficiency. Pituitary gland size studies showed that the small size of the residual glandular tissue was responsible for these particularities. If MRI is of no great interest for functional GH deficiency, in half of the primary complete GH deficiencies, it enables to visualize a pituitary stalk transection with regeneration of neurohypophysis.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pédiatrie, Hôpital de Cimiez, Nice.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mariani
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Coussement
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Berard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Altar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: el Barbary
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000097:blood; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000097:blood / Q000172:deficiency*; D006801:Humans; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000473:pathology; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D013006:Growth Hormone
vernacular_title: Apports de l'IRM dans les diverses variétés de déficit idiopathique en hormone de croissance.