PITUITARY FUNCTION TESTS

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HYPOPITUITARISM

✿ Pituitary dysfunction
  ✧ tumor
    ⁎ pituitary adenomas
    ⁎ pituitary cysts
    ⁎ metastatic cancer
  ✧ infiltration
    ⁎ hemochromatosis
    ⁎ lymphocytic hypophysitis
    ⁎ wegener granulomatosis
    ⁎ tuberculosis
    ⁎ igG4-related disease
    ⁎ xanthomatous hypophysitis
  ✧ infarct (sheehan syndrome)
  ✧ hemorrhage (pituitary apoplexy)
  ✧ empty sella
    ⁎ primary defect
    ⁎ post pituitary adenoma removal
  ✧ immunotherapy (ipilimumab)
  ✧ infection
  ✧ radiation
  ✧ trauma/ surgery


✿ Hypothalamic dysfunction
  ✧ tumor
    ⁎ craniopharyngioma
    ⁎ metastatic cancer
  ✧ infiltration
    ⁎ sarcoidosis
    ⁎ langerhans cell histiocytosis
  ✧ infection
    ⁎ tuberculosis
  ✧ radiation
  ✧ trauma
  ✧ ischemic stroke
  ✧ subarrachnoid hemorrhage

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