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ea0032p215 | Clinical case reports – Pituitary/Adrenal | ECE2013

Follicle-stimulating hormone-secreting pituitary macroadenoma: a rare cause of abnormal menstrual cycles in a teenage girl

Arici Birsen , Motov Stefan , Kelly Christopher , Zulewski Henryk , Mariani Luigi

Introduction: Gonadotroph adenomas usually present as clinically non-functioning sellar masses. They are extremely infrequent in children. Only some case report of children and adolescents with clinical manifestations of high serum gonadotrophin levels have been published. As in adult patients most of the gonadotroph adenomas have a silent growth, and therefore a late presentation as macroadenoma with mass effects.Case report: This 16-year-old girl prese...