Isolated aplasia of the anterior pituitary as a cause of congenital panhypopituitarism. Case report.
We document a male infant with congenital panhypopituitarism as detected at birth, in whom the adenohypophysis was totally absent by magnetic resonance imaging and all the anterior pituitary hormones were undetectable. His neurohypophysis was, by contrast, identified ectopically at the median eminence and antidiuretic hormone was appropriately secreted.
Kosaki
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Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Matsuo
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Tamai
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Miyama
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S
Momoshima
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S
D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000151:congenital* / Q000473:pathology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007564:Japan; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000002:abnormalities*; D010908:Pituitary Hormones, Anterior / Q000172:deficiency
D010908:Pituitary Hormones, Anterior