Anterior and posterior hypopituitarism with pituitary stalk abnormalities.
Hypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus are often idiopathic conditions. A retrospective study of 6 cases of diabetes insipidus and 8 cases of partial or global idiopathic anterior hypopituitarism has shown that MRI is of considerable value to detect abnormalities of the pituitary stalk or hypothalamo-pituitary "relay". On the basis of MRI findings, some cases of idiopathic hypopituitarism can now be grouped together in a new entity which may be called hypopituitarism due to neonatal transection of the pituitary stalk.
Carlier
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Service de Neuroradiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bicêtre, Faculté Paris Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Monnet
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Idir
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Halimi
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Simon
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Bouchard
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Schaison
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Doyon
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003919:Diabetes Insipidus / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D007030:Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / Q000473:pathology; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000473:pathology*; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000473:pathology*; D010904:Pituitary Gland, Posterior / Q000473:pathology*