Pituitary microadenoma symptoms in children?
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Pituitary adenoma this disease is a common benign tumor, and after the emergence of this disease, many women of childbearing age are prone to suffer, but now many children are also prone to pituitary adenoma, children pituitary microadenoma symptoms? What symptoms will appear in the future? Maybe many patients have this disease and don't understand the symptoms of this disease. Let me share some of my views with you.
Pituitary microadenoma symptoms in children?
Children with pituitary microadenoma, after the disease appears, patients often show some abnormal glucose, and patients will also appear acromegaly, and patients are prone to cause visual field defect. If you don't receive treatment for a long time, you may even have vision loss.
Pituitary microadenoma in children is usually treated by craniotomy and transsphenoidal surgery. It should also help us to shrink the tumor, help us to effectively remove the redundant cancer cells, help patients improve the survival rate, and play a therapeutic role.
Patients with pituitary microadenomas in children, in the usual treatment, we must prevent infection, and must pay attention to avoid brain edema, and usually we can use drugs to reduce intracranial pressure, such as mannitol and dexamethasone treatment.
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The patients with pituitary microadenoma in children are mainly caused by genetic factors, or some physical and chemical factors, and most of them are benign.