Silent Pituitary Apoplexy: Subclinical Infarction of an Adrenocorticotropin-Producing Pituitary Adenoma

Abstract:

A young woman developed intermittent head-aches and progressive hyperpigmentation after bilateral adrenalectorny for Cushing’s disease. Results of sellar polytomography were abnormal. Her plasma ACTH levels increased to 4750—7340 pg/ml and did not rise with insulin-induced hypoglycemia. Although she experienced no clinical features associated with spontaneous infarction of a pituitary tumor, plasma ACTH levels

Año de publicación:

1981

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