Empty sella syndrome in a male child with failure to thrive

Empty sella syndrome (ESS) is commonly seen in adult and is considered as an infrequent finding in childhood. It may be diagnosed incidentally on imaging in asymptomatic children. However, most of the children with ESS present with features of hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction. We report a case of...

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Autores principales: Rath, Debasmita, Sahoo, Ranjan Kumar, Choudhury, Jasashree, Dash, Dillip Kumar, Mohapatra, Anuspandana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25878744
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.154338
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description Empty sella syndrome (ESS) is commonly seen in adult and is considered as an infrequent finding in childhood. It may be diagnosed incidentally on imaging in asymptomatic children. However, most of the children with ESS present with features of hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction. We report a case of ESS in a child with features of failure to thrive as well as hypopituitarism and review the literature briefly on the subject.
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spelling pubmed-43959452015-04-15 Empty sella syndrome in a male child with failure to thrive Rath, Debasmita Sahoo, Ranjan Kumar Choudhury, Jasashree Dash, Dillip Kumar Mohapatra, Anuspandana J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Empty sella syndrome (ESS) is commonly seen in adult and is considered as an infrequent finding in childhood. It may be diagnosed incidentally on imaging in asymptomatic children. However, most of the children with ESS present with features of hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction. We report a case of ESS in a child with features of failure to thrive as well as hypopituitarism and review the literature briefly on the subject. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4395945/ /pubmed/25878744 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.154338 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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