[Ante- and posthypophyseal insufficiency with infundibulum abnormalities]

R Carlier; O Monnet; A B Idir; P Halimi; P Simon; P Bouchard; G Schaison; D Doyon

[Ante- and posthypophyseal insufficiency with infundibulum abnormalities]

J Radiol. 1991 Aug-Sep;72(8-9):437-43.

[Article in French]

Authors

R Carlier¹, O Monnet, A B Idir, P Halimi, P Simon, P Bouchard, G Schaison, D Doyon

Affiliation

¹ Service de Neuroradiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bicêtre, Kremlin-Bicêtre.

PMID: 1920262

Abstract

The hypopituitarism and the diabetes insipidus are often idiopathic. A retrospective study of 6 cases of diabetes insipidus and 8 cases of partial or total idiopathic antehypophyseal insufficiency has shown the value of MRI to demonstrate anomalies of the infundibulum or hypothalamic-hypophysis "stages". MRI allows to bring together some cases of idiopathic hypopituitarism in a new entity which is the hypopituitarism due to a newborn section of the infundibulum.

Publication types

English Abstract

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Diabetes Insipidus / pathology
Female
Humans
Hypopituitarism / pathology*
Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System / abnormalities*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Male
Middle Aged
Pituitary Gland, Anterior
Pituitary Gland, Posterior
Retrospective Studies