Early symptoms of pituitary microadenoma

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Pituitary microadenoma is a kind of benign tumor, which is the most common tumor in sellar region. Recently, there is an increasing trend among women of childbearing age. The etiology is not clear at present. It is generally believed that it is caused by many factors, such as genetic factors, physical and chemical factors, and so on. In addition, biological factors are also possible inducements, which do great harm to patients, We need to pay attention to timely treatment, including surgical treatment, radiotherapy, drug therapy and so on, so what are the early symptoms of pituitary microadenoma? Now let me introduce it to you

Early symptoms of pituitary microadenoma

There are many early symptoms of pituitary adenoma, mainly according to the patient's gender, age, tumor size, etc. there will be different specific symptoms, such as acromegaly caused by excessive secretion of hormone, Cushing's syndrome and prolactinoma, etc.

If it belongs to the pituitary surrounding tissue compression syndrome group, the patients will mainly have dizziness and headache accompanied by decreased vision, visual field defect and other symptoms, and some will appear hypothalamic syndrome and cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea, which are common symptoms, we need to pay attention to.

If it belongs to the type of pituitary adenoma and / or pituitary infarction, the patient will have compression symptoms and meningeal irritation symptoms. And the symptoms come quickly, severe anterior pituitary dysfunction will appear, the harm to patients is great, need timely treatment.

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To sum up, there are many symptoms of pituitary microadenoma, according to the specific type of patients, the location of the disease and so on, there will be different symptoms, we need to pay attention to them, and timely diagnosis and treatment should be carried out in case of similar symptoms. Collect this page and subscribe to mailbox