title: Association of ectopic posterior pituitary and anterior pituitary hypoplasia with absence of the left internal carotid.
abstract: A boy with congenital hypopituitarism, severe anterior pituitary hypoplasia, and ectopic posterior pituitary was found to have congenital absence of the left internal carotid artery. A possible developmental relationship between hypopituitarism and absent internal carotid is suggested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA.
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Shulman
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Martinez
mesh_terms: D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002828:Choristoma; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000151:congenital*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000473:pathology*; D010904:Pituitary Gland, Posterior; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed