Pituitary tumors: 90% of people have no obvious symptoms, and 10% of people have clinically significant symptoms only. Clinical manifestations include hyperthyroidism, hypopthalmia, acromegaly, and overflowing breast. Pituitary tumors are a group of tumors occurring from the anterior and posterior pituitary lobes and the remnant cells of the craniopharyngeal tube epithelium. The age of onset is mostly between 31-40 years, with the next two groups between 21-30 and 41-50 years.
It causes hypogonadism; infertility, lactation, menstrual irregularities; headache and dizziness; vision loss and visual field defects; facial, limb and shape changes; and other neurological and brain damage.
Symptom 1, high prolactin: manifested as lactation, menstrual irregularities, infertility, etc.
Symptom 2, decreased sexual function: about 60% of pituitary tumor patients have sexual dysfunction, but the actual situation is much higher than this number, because our tradition is traditionally very conservative about sex, and some people are often reluctant to talk about it.
Symptom 3, headache and dizziness: they are more intense in nature, often occurring in the early morning, sometimes waking up in pain during sleep, but the headache will gradually ease or disappear after getting up and moving around lightly.
Symptom 4, vomiting: Due to the increase of intracranial pressure, the medulla oblongata respiratory center is stimulated, which leads to vomiting, vomiting mostly occurs after headache, in the form of jet.
Symptom 5: Visual impairment: The increased intracranial pressure will cause poor venous blood return to the eye, resulting in bruising and edema, which will damage the visual cells in the retina of the eye, resulting in vision loss.
Symptom 6, gigantism: mostly seen in pituitary tumors. The patient grows rapidly and develops acromegaly (large chin, large nose, lips and tongue are enlarged, and hands and feet are abnormally large).
Symptom 7, acromegaly: progressive enlargement of hands and feet, head, thorax and limbs, hypertrophy of palms, thickening of fingers, spherical distal end, bulging forehead, orbits, cheekbones, i.e., jaws, obvious protrusion, widening of teeth, thickening of lips, wide and flattened nose, large ears, etc.
Symptom 8, developmental arrest in young children: commonly seen in craniopharyngioma. The clinical manifestation of pituitary tumor is that the body is only five or six years old at the age of 15 or 16, and the sexual characteristics are not developed, and the belly is full of fat, which looks like “teenage fat”.