Hypopituitarism
Diminution or cessation of secretion of one or more hormones from the anterior pituitary gland (including LH; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; SOMATOTROPIN; and CORTICOTROPIN). This may result from surgical or radiation ablation, non-secretory PITUITARY NEOPLASMS, metastatic tumors, infarction, PITUITARY APOPLEXY, infiltrative or granulomatous processes, and other conditions.
Year introduced: 1963
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Tree Number(s): C10.228.140.617.738.300, C19.700.482
MeSH Unique ID: D007018
Entry Terms:
- Pituitary Insufficiency
- Insufficiency, Pituitary
- Hyposecretion Syndrome, Anterior Pituitary
- Hyposecretion, Adenohypophyseal
- Adenohypophyseal Hyposecretion
- Anterior Pituitary Hyposecretion Syndrome
- Postpartum Hypopituitarism
- Hypopituitarism, Postpartum
- Simmonds' Disease
- Simmond's Disease
- Sheehan Syndrome
- Syndrome, Sheehan
- Postpartum Panhypopituitarism
- Panhypopituitarism, Postpartum
- Postpartum Pituitary Insufficiency
- Pituitary Insufficiency, Postpartum
- Sheehan's Syndrome
- Sheehans Syndrome
- Syndrome, Sheehan's
- Simmonds Disease
- Disease, Simmonds