Über die Dystopie der Neurohypophyse

Priesel, A.

doi:10.1007/bf02126281

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“…Over the following years, he collected 6 cases with ectopic posterior pituitary lobes [2]. The tissue of the posterior lobe was lacking at its normal intrasellar site, but was present in a nodule at different levels of the hypothalamohypophyseal tract.…”

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Neurohypophyseal Ectopy in Growth Hormone Insufficiency

et al. 1989

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Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of the hypothalamohypophyseal tract allows the detection and identification of ectopic posterior pituitary lobe tissue by its characteristic high signal intensity. We found this anomaly in 2 boys with growth hormone insufficiency. Neurohypophyseal ectopy may be misdiagnosed as subhypothalamic tumor and such patients risk to be subjected to unnecessary neurosurgery.

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