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Anterior and posterior hypopituitarism with pituitary stalk abnormalities
R Carlier1, O Monnet, A B Idir
1Service de Neuroradiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bicêtre, Faculté Paris Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Journal of Neuroradiology = Journal De Neuroradiologie
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Hypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus are often idiopathic conditions. A retrospective study of 6 cases of diabetes insipidus and 8 cases of partial or global idiopathic anterior hypopituitarism has shown that MRI is of considerable value to detect abnormalities of the pituitary stalk or hypothalamo-pituitary "relay". On the basis of MRI findings, some cases of idiopathic hypopituitarism can now be grouped together in a new entity which may be called hypopituitarism due to neonatal transection of the pituitary stalk.