The Dark Pituitary: Hemochromatosis as a Lesser-Known Cause of Pituitary Dysfunction

Teaching Point: Iron deposition in the pituitary gland in patients with primary and secondary hemochromatosis is a lesser-known cause of pituitary dysfunction and results in T2- and T2*-signal loss on MRI, other brain structures, in which iron deposition can be seen, are the choroid plexus and spora...

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Autores principales: Verberckmoes, Bert, Dekeyzer, Sven, Decaestecker, Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2022
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Images in Clinical Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9248988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35854824
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.2771
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description Teaching Point: Iron deposition in the pituitary gland in patients with primary and secondary hemochromatosis is a lesser-known cause of pituitary dysfunction and results in T2- and T2*-signal loss on MRI, other brain structures, in which iron deposition can be seen, are the choroid plexus and sporadically the circumventricular organs (e.g., the pineal gland).
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spelling pubmed-92489882022-07-18 The Dark Pituitary: Hemochromatosis as a Lesser-Known Cause of Pituitary Dysfunction Verberckmoes, Bert Dekeyzer, Sven Decaestecker, Karen J Belg Soc Radiol Images in Clinical Radiology Teaching Point: Iron deposition in the pituitary gland in patients with primary and secondary hemochromatosis is a lesser-known cause of pituitary dysfunction and results in T2- and T2*-signal loss on MRI, other brain structures, in which iron deposition can be seen, are the choroid plexus and sporadically the circumventricular organs (e.g., the pineal gland). Ubiquity Press 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9248988/ /pubmed/35854824 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.2771 Text en Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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