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ea0041ep308 | Clinical case reports - Pituitary/Adrenal | ECE2016

A rare case of panhypopituitarism: pituitary stalk interruption syndrome

Baskoy Kamil , Ahmet Ay Seyid , Basbug Barbaros , Deniz Ferhat , Yonem Arif

Introduction: Hypopituitarism is characterized by decreasing of pituitary hormones, which can result from diseases of the pituitary gland or the hypothalamus. The prevalence of hypopituitarism is 30–45 out of 100 000 in the world wide. Causes of panhypopituitarism are non-tumoral hypotalomopituitary reasons (50%), pituitary tumors (43%) and extra-pituitary tumors (7%). Here we want to present a very rare case of pan hypopituitarism; pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (...