What are the symptoms of pituitary adenoma?

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Pituitary adenomas are a group of tumors arising from the residual cells of anterior and posterior pituitary and craniopharyngeal epithelium. About 10% of intracranial tumors have obvious clinical symptoms. Male slightly more than female, pituitary tumor usually occurs in young adults, often affect the patient's growth and development, reproductive function, learning and working ability. The clinical manifestations were abnormal hormone secretion syndrome, tumor compression of pituitary surrounding tissue syndrome, pituitary apoplexy and other manifestations of anterior pituitary dysfunction. What are the symptoms of pituitary adenoma? Let's talk about it

What are the symptoms of pituitary adenoma?

Excessive hormone secretion syndrome, such as acromegaly caused by excessive growth hormone; Hypohormonal syndrome. When the nonfunctional tumor is enlarged and normal pituitary tissue is destroyed, amenorrhea occurs due to decreased gonadotropin secretion. Infertility or impotence is often the earliest and most common.

Nerve fiber irritation is a persistent headache. The patients with optic nerve, optic chiasm and optic nerve bundle compression had vision loss, visual field defect and fundus changes; Other compression syndromes.

Clinically, pituitary adenoma is one of the most common neuroendocrine tumors, accounting for 10% - 15% of central nervous system tumors. Most pituitary adenomas are benign tumors.

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The treatment of pituitary tumor mainly includes surgery, medicine and radiotherapy. It is because there is no way to achieve the goal of complete cure, so all kinds of treatment methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, should be based on the size of the patient's pituitary tumor, hormone secretion, complications and comorbid diseases, patient's age, whether there are fertility requirements and the patient's economic situation to develop individualized treatment.