Calcification of the pituitary stalk associated with the clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Three male patients who were at some time diagnosed as schizophrenic are described. They all suffered from a degree of strangulation due to calcification of the pituitary stalk and may have been suffering from a variant of mesodermal hyperplastic disease given a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications*; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000209:etiology; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D011859:Radiography; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging