What symptom does pituitary cyst have?

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Pituitary cyst is also a kind of benign tumor, we all know that pituitary plays a very important role in the endocrine regulation of human body, so once there is pituitary cyst, it will often bring some symptoms of endocrine abnormalities, here we will introduce

What symptom does pituitary cyst have?

The main manifestations are gigantism, facial changes, hand and foot enlargement, hyperhidrosis, bone and joint diseases, carpal tunnel syndrome, swelling of soft tissue and joints of hand and foot fingers (toes), elevated blood pressure, elevated blood glucose, coronary heart disease, thyroid and colon tumors, etc.

Women generally show menstrual disorders, infertility and so on. Hormone secreting tumors can occur singly, or they can be mixed tumors with more than two kinds of hormone secretion, and their clinical manifestations also have corresponding mixed symptoms.

Early pituitary adenoma is small, often without visual field disorders, such as tumor growth, upward extension, compression of chiasm, visual field defect, mostly double temporal hemianopia. If it is not treated in time, the visual field defect can be enlarged, and the visual acuity is also decreased, leading to total blindness.

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If the pituitary tumor grows up backward and oppresses the pituitary stalk or hypothalamus, it can cause polydipsia and polyuria; If the tumor grows laterally and invades the cavernous sinus wall, oculomotor nerve or abducent nerve paralysis will occur; If the tumor passes through the sellar septum and then grows upward, the ventral part of the frontal lobe is caused, sometimes mental symptoms appear; If the tumor grows backward, it can compress the brain stem and cause coma, paralysis or brain rigidity.