Endocrine Abstracts

Pituitary apoplexy (characterised by sudden onset headache, meningism and cranial nerve defects) is an unusual but serious complication of pituitary macroadenoma. Less than 2 percent of patients with pituitary macroadenoma present initially with apoplexy. Pituitary adenoma is the presenting feature in 10–25% of cases with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) type 1, with microadenomas accounting for 2/3 of MEN-related pituitary adenomas.A 35-year-old ...