Divers Aspects de L’Atrophie Hypophysaire

Autor:	Marc Herlant
Rok vydání:	1946
Předmět:	Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Adrenal cortex business.industry Thyroid General Medicine medicine.disease Hypoplasia Lesion medicine.anatomical_structure Atrophy Anterior pituitary medicine Endocrine system medicine.symptom business Pathological
Zdroj:	Acta Clinica Belgica. 1:197-217
ISSN:	2295-3337 1784-3286
DOI:	10.1080/17843286.1946.11716371
Popis:	SummaryAnatomo-clinical study of four cases of Simmonds disease observed during the last years, at St Pierre Hospital, Brussels; among them were three females and one male.Discussion of the pathological and clinical features of the disease.The principal lesion of this disease is the destruction of the anterior pituitary lobe, caused by a specific or non specific inflammation, or by a solid or cystic tumor. Howewer, though this was not the case with the actual patients, it seems that pituitary atrophy of women is usually caused by a post-partum thrombotic necrosis.The destruction of the anterior pituitary is followed by a secondary hypoplasia of gonads, thyroid and adrenal cortex similar to atrophy observed on animals after hypophysectomy.Notwithstanding the pathological identity of the lesions of endocrine organs, the clinical symptoms are, in most cases, quite variable. Endocrinal deficiencies do not appear with the same intensity in all cases, and predominance of one or another of these deficiencies is ...
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