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hypopituitarism

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hypopituitarism [‚hī·pō·pə′tü·ə·tə‚riz·əm]
(medicine)
Condition caused by insufficient secretion of pituitary hormones, especially of the adenohypophysis. Also known as panhypopituitarism.


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Xerostomia is the most common; others include pituitary dysfunction, temporal bone necrosis, dysphagia, cranial nerve palsy, heating loss, carotid artery stenosis, hypothyroidism, dry eye syndrome, myelitis, encephalopathy, hypopituitarism, and severe trismus, to name a few.
PUUV infection may also lead to neurologic symptoms including meningoencephalitis, polyradiculitis, seizures, cerebral hemorrhage, urinary bladder paralysis, and hypopituitarism (6,7).
This gives her a diagnostic reference of normality when disorders develop such as certain ovarian cysts, vaginal infections, cancer of the cervix and of the body of the uterus, and less common conditions such as hypopituitarism, hyper-prolactaeima and so on.
 
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