Symptoms of pituitary microadenoma

The appearance of tumors always makes people very scared, but we also need to look at them differently, because some tumors are benign, while some tumors are malignant. Benign tumors are relatively easy to treat, but we must discover the symptoms caused by the tumor as early as possible. Below we will introduce to you the symptoms of pituitary microadenoma. Once the symptoms of pituitary microadenoma appear, we must seek treatment in time.

Pituitary tumor is a benign adenoma and the most common tumor in the sellar region, with approximately 1 case in every 100,000 people. The incidence has been increasing in recent years, especially among women of childbearing age. The diagnosis of pituitary adenoma is mainly based on the patient's clinical manifestations, visual field disturbances and other neurological findings, as well as endocrinological and radiological examinations.

It is related to the patient's gender, age, tumor size and extension direction, and the type of hormone secretion, and includes the following 4 groups of symptoms:

1. Symptoms and signs caused by excessive hormone secretion from pituitary tumors, the most common of which are acromegaly, Cushing's syndrome and prolactinoma.

2. The pituitary gland itself is under pressure, mainly due to the decrease in the secretion of pituitary trophic hormones. Generally, growth hormone GH is affected first, followed by luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and finally adrenocorticotropic hormone and thyrotropin. A few may be accompanied by diabetes insipidus.

3. Symptoms of compression of peri-pituitary tissues, including headache, decreased vision, visual field loss, hypothalamic syndrome and cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea.

4. Pituitary stroke refers to infarction, necrosis or hemorrhage of pituitary adenoma and/or pituitary gland itself. Clinically, compression symptoms and meningeal irritation symptoms may appear rapidly, the clinical manifestations of hyperpituitarism may disappear or be alleviated, and even anterior pituitary function may be reduced.

In the above article, we introduced the classification of tumors. Tumors can be divided into two types: benign tumors and malignant tumors. Pituitary microadenoma is a type of benign tumor. Above, we introduced the symptoms of pituitary microadenoma in detail.