Diagnosaurus
Hypopituitarism
Etiology
Mass lesions
- Pituitary adenoma (prolactinoma, nonfunctioning, growth hormone-secreting)
- Granuloma
- Brain tumor (eg, craniopharyngioma, meningioma, germinoma, glioma, chondrosarcoma, chordoma of the clivus)
- Rathke’s cleft cyst
- Aneurysm
- Pituitary apoplexy (hemorrhage in pituitary tumor)
- Metastatic carcinoma
- Idiopathic
- Trauma
- Cranial irradiation
- Hemochromatosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Surgery
- Encephalitis
- Autoimmune
- Stroke
- Status post-coronary artery bypass graft
- Postpartum pituitary necrosis (Sheehan’s syndrome)
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis
- Eclampsia-preeclampsia
- Sickle cell disease
- African trypanosomiasis
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Hypopituitarism." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114298/all/Hypopituitarism.
Zeiger RFR. Hypopituitarism. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114298/all/Hypopituitarism. Accessed October 31, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Hypopituitarism. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114298/all/Hypopituitarism
Zeiger RFR. Hypopituitarism [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 October 31]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114298/all/Hypopituitarism.
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