Pituitary Tumor and Pituitary Adenoma Symptoms

Pituitary tumors occur in 20 to 50-year-old young adults, the elderly especially rare in children. Pituitary tumor symptoms include:

1. Headache.

2. Impaired vision (monocular or binocular to see things clear, easy to hit the door frame, from the progressive development of severe or sudden headaches to blindness)

3. Menstrual disorders, menopause, lactation (the spontaneous flow of breast milk, or after touching the breast flow milk), not pregnant, changes in sexual desire (mostly reduced capacity), body hair reduction, skin changes (thinning)

4. Acromegaly: hands, head, chest and limbs for increased, hand, foot and palm hypertrophy, enlarged fingers, remote spherical bulge on his forehead, eyes, prominent cheekbones that is significantly lower.

Common pituitary adenoma symptoms include:
1. Visual barriers: Early pituitary adenoma obstacles often no visual horizon. Such as the tumor grew, extending upward, oppression optic chiasm, visual field defect appeared, first of all, outside the affected quadrant, the red field of vision was first manifested. Increased after the lesion, more oppression, the white field of vision is also affected by the impact of defect can be gradually extended to two-temporal hemianopia. If not treated in time, visual field defect can be expanded, and vision have receded, so blind. Because many benign pituitary tumor, the early lesions sustainable for some time, to be in a serious condition, the visual field of vision suddenly increased the obstacles, if the bias on the side of the tumor can be induced by hemianopia or monocular blindness.

2. Other neurological symptoms and signs: If you back on the growth of pituitary tumor suppression hypothalamic pituitary stalk, or can be induced polydipsia polyuria; side to side if the tumor growth of violations of the cavernous sinus wall, or the emergence of the oculomotor nerve palsy outreach; if tumor through the diaphragma sellae upward again ventral prefrontal cortex to the Department of Growth and sometimes psychiatric symptoms; back on if the growth of tumor obstruction of the third ventricle and interventricular anterior hole, then, such as headache and vomiting symptoms of intracranial hypertension; if the tumor to the After the growth, can be caused by brainstem compression coma, paralysis or tonic to the brain and so on.