Hypopituitarism
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Etiology
Mass lesions
- Pituitary adenoma (prolactinoma, nonfunctioning, growth hormone-secreting)
- Granuloma
- Brain tumor (eg, craniopharyngioma, meningioma, germinoma, glioma, chondrosarcoma, chordoma of the clivus)
- Rathke’s cleft cyst
- Aneurysm
- Pituitary apoplexy (hemorrhage in pituitary tumor)
- Metastatic carcinoma
- Idiopathic
- Trauma
- Cranial irradiation
- Hemochromatosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Surgery
- Encephalitis
- Autoimmune
- Stroke
- Status post-coronary artery bypass graft
- Postpartum pituitary necrosis (Sheehan’s syndrome)
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Eclampsia-preeclampsia
- Sickle cell disease
- African trypanosomiasis
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Etiology
Mass lesions
- Pituitary adenoma (prolactinoma, nonfunctioning, growth hormone-secreting)
- Granuloma
- Brain tumor (eg, craniopharyngioma, meningioma, germinoma, glioma, chondrosarcoma, chordoma of the clivus)
- Rathke’s cleft cyst
- Aneurysm
- Pituitary apoplexy (hemorrhage in pituitary tumor)
- Metastatic carcinoma
- Idiopathic
- Trauma
- Cranial irradiation
- Hemochromatosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Surgery
- Encephalitis
- Autoimmune
- Stroke
- Status post-coronary artery bypass graft
- Postpartum pituitary necrosis (Sheehan’s syndrome)
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Eclampsia-preeclampsia
- Sickle cell disease
- African trypanosomiasis
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