Partial growth hormone deficiency with pituitary stalk transection
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T Hasegawa1, Y Hasegawa, T Yokoyama
1Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Kiyose Children's Hospital, Japan.
Endocrinologia Japonica
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
Partial growth hormone deficiency was found in a 13-year-old Japanese boy who was born by breech delivery. Magnetic resonance imaging showed transection of the pituitary stalk and the presence of an ectopic posterior lobe located at the proximal stump of the transected stalk.