[Chronic anterior hypophyseal insufficiency following frontobasal skull fractures].
It is reported on a case of chronic insufficiency of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland after frontobasal fracture of the skull. It is referred to the rareness of traumatically caused hypophyseal endocrine deficiency syndromes and the etiopathogenesis, the differential-diagnostic problem as well as the possibilities of a hormonal substitution therapy is discussed on the basis of the specialized literature.
D000328:Adult; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004338:Drug Combinations / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010901:Pituitary Function Tests; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000293:injuries*; D010908:Pituitary Hormones, Anterior / Q000172:deficiency*; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012887:Skull Fractures / Q000150:complications*; D013739:Testosterone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013974:Thyroxine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000627:therapeutic use
D004338:Drug Combinations; D010908:Pituitary Hormones, Anterior; D014284:Triiodothyronine; D013739:Testosterone; C018539:thyroxine, triiodothyronine drug combination; D011239:Prednisolone; D013974:Thyroxine
Chronische Hypophysenvorderlappeninsuffizienz nach frontobasaler Schädelfraktur.