The three most common hormone-producing (called endocrine-active) adenomas are: Prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma (prolactinoma): over production of prolactin by the pituitary tumor causes loss of menstrual periods and breast milk production in women. Growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma: excessive growth hormone (GH) production causes acromegaly in adults or gigantism in children. ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma: excessive ACTH hormone [...]
Mainly based on tumor size, whether the secretion of hormones, and complications in patients decide treatment. The treatment of pituitary adenoma is a multi-department collaboration a comprehensive treatment process. Departments involved in the treatment of pituitary adenomas are endocrine, neurological surgery, radiation therapy, ophthalmology, Diagnostic Imaging Department and other departments. A retrospective from the domestic [...]
Hormone secreting pituitary tumor is the most complex clinical presentation, treatment options and diverse, different clinical outcomes of a class of outcome of pituitary adenomas. According to the different types of hormone secretion, hormone secreting pituitary adenoma can be divided into the following categories: 1) prolactin secreting pituitary adenoma. Most female patients, mainly as amenorrhea, [...]
1.Surgery: including craniotomy and transsphenoidal surgery. 2. Radiation therapy: a certain effect on the pituitary adenoma, can control tumor development, and sometimes shrink the tumor, resulting in visual perspective has changed pituitary adenoma Into, but not simply cured. Drug therapy: bromocriptine ergotamine for the semi-synthetic alkaloid, can stimulate dopamine receptors in pituitary cells, reduce the [...]
Pituitary as an important endocrine organ, contains several kinds of endocrine cells secrete various hormones, if a cell adenoma endocrine, clinical manifestations may be a special place. The details are described as follow: 1. Different types of endocrine pituitary performance (1) growth hormone cell adenoma: early tumors only a few mm in size, mainly for [...]
Clinical manifestations 1 glioma: from the nervous system to support organizations, an ectodermal tumor. Many glioma tumor cells and mature its or immature glial cells similar. 1) astrocytoma. This is the most common are gliomas, accounting for 51.2% of gliomas, the disease most commonly occurs in adults is the quantity of roof area, temporal lobe [...]
1, glial cell tumor Including astrocytomas (including glioblastoma multiforme), less support glioblastoma, medulloblastoma, colloid cyst. The total incidence of brain tumors account for about 45% of the total number of about 35. (A) of sub-astrocytoma grade Ⅰ ~ Ⅵ. The most common glioma of a class. Ⅰ Grade, more than in the white matter in [...]
Of Rochester Medical Center researchers new study found the men, a hormone the body may be unique to bladder cancer risk than men, one of the reasons women. The researchers recently published in the United States, “Journal of the National Cancer Institute,” the report said they found in animal experiments, male mice caused a higher [...]
Differentiated thyroid cancer long-term follow-up goal is likely to relapse on close monitoring of patients for early detection of recurrence of lesions, early detection of tumor lesions contribute to the implementation of effective treatment for patients. Following by the contents of persistent or recurrent disease in patients with the size of risk Different. American Joint [...]
Primary hypothyroidism is the most common type, is probably the autoimmune disease, usually due to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, often accompanied with a solid goiter, after the course with the development of thyroid fibrosis appeared reduced no or few features. Second A more common type is the treatment of hypothyroidism, particularly for radioactive iodine for hyperthyroidism and [...]
