Pituitary duplication: A rare cause of precocious puberty

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1157-1160

  Akin, Leyla ^a   Kendirci, Mustafa ^a   Doğanay, Selim ^a   Kurtoǧlu, Selim ^a   Tucer, Bulent ^a   Coskun, Abdulhakim ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY DUPLICATION; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 79959577546     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-011-1443-8     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Ahlfeld F (1880) DieMissbildungen des Menschen. Band 1. Grunow, Leipzig 73
2. Burke M, Zinkovsky S, Abrantes MA, Riley W (2000) Duplication of the hypophysis. Pediatr Neurosurg 33:95-99
3. Hamon-Ke'rautret M, Ares GS, Demondion X, Rouland V, Francke JP, Pruvo JP (1998) Duplication of the pituitary gland in a newborn with median cleft face syndrome and nasal teratoma. Pediatr Radiol 28:290-292
4. Kollias SS, Ball WS, Prenger EC (1995) Review of the embryologic development of the pituitary gland and report of a case of hypophyseal duplication detected by MRI. Neuroradiology 37:3-12
5. Vieira TC, Chinen RN, Ribeiro MR, Nogueira RG, Abucham J (2007) Central precocious puberty associated with pituitary duplication and midline defects. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 20:1141-1144 (Pubitemid 350148463)
6. Shah S, Pereira JK, Becker CJ, Roubal SE (1997) Duplication of pituitary gland. J Comput Assist Tomogr 21:459-461 (Pubitemid 27212428)
7. Dattani MT, Robinson IC (2000) The molecular basis for developmental disorders of the pituitary gland in man. Clin Genet 57:337-346 (Pubitemid 30245819)
8. Accornero S, Danesino C, Bastianello S, D'Errico I, Guala A, Chiovato L (2010) Duplication of the pituitary stalk in a patient with a heterozygous deletion of chromosome 14 harboring the thyroid transcription factor-1 gene. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:3595-3596
9. de Penna GC, Pimenta MP, Drummond JB, Sarquis M, Martins JC, de Campos RC, Dias EP (2005) Duplication of the hypophysis associated with precocious puberty: presentation of two cases and review of pituitary embryogenesis. Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol 49:323-327
10. Kandpal H, Seith A, Philip J, Gupta R, Ammini AC (2007) Partial duplication of the hypophysis in adult patients: report of 2 cases. J Comput Assist Tomogr 31:365-367 (Pubitemid 46849902)
11. Shroff M, Blaser S, Jay V, Chitayat D, Armstrong D (2003) Basilar artery duplication associated with pituitary duplication: a new finding. Am J Neuroradiol 24:956-961 (Pubitemid 36617431)
12. Uchino A, Sawada A, Takase Y FI, Kudo S (2002) Extreme fenestration of the basilar artery associated with cleft palate, nasopharyngeal mature teratoma, and hypophyseal duplication. Eur Radiol 12:2087-2090 (Pubitemid 36940298)
13. Bagherian V, Graham M GLP, Armstrong DL (1984) Double pituitary glands with partial duplication of facial and fore brain structures with hydrocephalus. Comput Radiol 8:203-210 (Pubitemid 14055968)
14. Bale PM, Reye RD (1976) Epignathus, double pituitary and agenesis of corpus callosum. J Pathol 120:161-164
15. Hori A (1983) A brain with two hypophyses in median cleft face syndrome. Acta Neuropathol 59:150-154
16. Il'ina EG, Laziuk GI (1989) A new case of the "double hypophysis - multiple congenital developmental defects" complex. Tsitol Genet 23:45-46
17. Lam WW, Metreweli C (1999) MRI of double hypophysis. Clin Radiol 54:774-775 (Pubitemid 29527755)
18. Morton WR (1957) Duplication of the pituitary and stomatodaeal structures in a 38-week male infant. Arch Dis Child 32:135-141
19. Madhusudhan KS, Kandpal H (2009) Pituitary stalk duplication with intrasellar dermoid and herniation of the third ventricle. Pediatr Radiol 39:1013
20. Huisman TA, Fischer U, Boltshauser E, Straube T, Gysin C (2005) Pituitary duplication and nasopharyngeal teratoma in a newborn: CT, MRI, US and correlative histopathological findings. Neuroradiology 47:558-561 (Pubitemid 41086413)
21. Mutlu H, Paker B, Gunes N, Emektar A, Keceli M, Kantarci M (2004) Pituitary duplication associated with oral dermoid and corpus callosum hypogenesis. Neuroradiology 46:1036-1038 (Pubitemid 40823332)
22. Krnić N, Dumić K, Rados M, Putarek NR, Stanimirović A (2009) Duplication of the pituitary gland. Lijec Vjesn 131:130-132
23. Kelberman D, Rizzoti K, Lovell-Badge R, Robinson IC, Dattani MT (2009) Genetic regulation of pituitary gland development in human and mouse. Endocr Rev 30:790-829