Pituitary abscess following asymptomatic sphenoid sinusitis

Marks, Paul; Furneaux, Christopher E.

doi:10.1017/s0022215100148194

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“…A sua origem pode ser a disseminação hematogênica de foco a distância (14,15) ou a exten-são direta de infecção adjacente, por exemplo: meningite (16,17), sinusite esfenoidal (18,19), tromboflebite do seio cavernoso (20,21) ou contaminação de fístula liqüórica (22,23).…”

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Abscesso hipofisário simulando apoplexia

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Migowski

Czepielewski

et al. 2006

Arq Bras Endocrinol Metab

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A pituitary abscess is a rare pathology, but it must be considered when evaluating sellar masses, since its prognosis depends on surgical drainage and on the use of specific antibiotics. The main clinical manifestation is chronic headache, and it is not always associated with the identification of a site of infection, which diminishes the probability of including it in diagnostic hypotheses. The case is presented of a patient with a pituitary abscess and a previous history of adenoma that had been operated on, recent onset headache and acquired hypopituitarism whose initial diagnosis was pituitary apoplexy.

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