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ea0002p13 | Clinical case reports | SFE2001

TUBERCULOUS HYPOPHISITIS-AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF HYPOPITUITARISM

Stephens J , Morganstein D , Bannister B , Dorwood N , #P-MG|#Bouloux|#

A 21 year-old woman of Indian descent, but UK born and bread presented with a two-year history of intermittent headaches, hot flushes, polydipsia, nocturia and amenorrhoea. One year previously she had been diagnosed with primary hypothyroidism with a TSH of 7.3 and FT4 of 6.5. She was treated with thyroxine but remained amenorrhoeic.Subsequent evaluation revealed TSH, LH, and FSH deficiency with evidence of cranial diabetes insipidus. An MRI scan of the ...