Endocrine Abstracts

Pituitary apoplexy is a rare syndrome due to a clinically overt hemorrhagic infarction, described in 2–7% of pituitary adenomas. A subclinical usually asymptomatic pituitary hemorrhage and/or infarction may be detected on routine imaging or during histopathological examination in 25–28% of patients with pituitary adenomas.Aim: We compared the clinical features and evolution of 166 patients with subclinical pituitary apoplexy (SPA) and 46 patien...