title: Pituitary adenoma causing visual disturbances in a 6-year-old girl.
abstract: Pituitary adenomas rarely occur in young children, typically present with systemic symptoms, and rarely undergo malignant transformation. We report a 4-year-old girl who presented with visual disturbances initially diagnosed and treated as amblyopia. She subsequently developed headaches and a gait disturbance and was discovered to have a large, suprasellar, nonsecreting pituitary adenoma. The tumor was resected, but 22 months later she developed recurrence with malignant transformation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas Adam
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Oliver
authors.forename: Mary Ellen
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Hoehn
authors.forename: Fredrick
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Boop
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Ellison
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D020233:Gait Disorders, Neurologic / Q000209:etiology; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008215:Lymphocytes, Null; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018302:Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*