What are the characteristics of pituitary tumors

When you have unexplained headaches, deafness, tinnitus, and decreased vision, you may be suffering from a pituitary tumor. Pituitary tumors are not a common disease. They account for about 10% of intracranial tumors. Many people do not have a very detailed understanding of the characteristics of pituitary tumors. So, what are the characteristics of pituitary tumors? Let's take a look.

What are the symptoms of pituitary tumors? The main ones are as follows:

1. Anterior pituitary compression and hypofunction syndrome caused by pituitary tumors:

① Hypogonadism is often the earliest symptom. In men, it manifests as sparse beard, slow beard growth, sexual dysfunction, and impotence; in women, it manifests as amenorrhea, infertility, loss of pubic and axillary hair, and sexual dysfunction.

②What are the symptoms of pituitary tumors? Symptoms of hypothyroidism include chills, less sweating, loss of appetite, edema, constipation, etc.

③Hypothalamic syndrome: When the tumor grows upward and affects the hypothalamus, hypothalamic syndrome may occur.

④ Cavernous sinus syndrome: The tumor grows to both sides and compresses the cavernous sinus, causing eye movement disorders, exophthalmos, secondary trigeminal neuralgia, and facial numbness.

2. Posterior pituitary compression syndrome of pituitary tumor: changes of pituitary diabetes insipidus such as polydipsia, polyuria, and dehydration.

3. Compression syndrome of surrounding tissues of pituitary tumors:

① Headache, characterized by dull pain and distending pain in the forehead and both temporal sides accompanied by paroxysmal severe pain. The headache is caused by compression and tension of the dura mater, or compression of the sella diaphragm caused by upward growth of the tumor, or growth of the tumor outside the sella turcica affecting the meninges and vascular adventitia at the base of the skull.

②What are the symptoms of pituitary tumors? Decreased vision, visual field defects and fundus changes: The tumor grows forward and upward and often compresses the optic nerve or optic chiasm, causing decreased vision, visual field defects (hemianopsia) and fundus changes (optic disc atrophy, edema).

③Hypothalamic syndrome: When the tumor grows upward and affects the hypothalamus, hypothalamic syndrome may occur.

④ Cavernous sinus syndrome: The tumor grows to both sides and compresses the cavernous sinus, causing eye movement disorders, exophthalmos, secondary trigeminal neuralgia, and facial numbness.

⑤ Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea: Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea may occur when the tumor grows downward and destroys the sella turcica and sphenoid sinus.

The above is a detailed introduction for you. I believe that everyone has a certain understanding of the symptoms of pituitary tumors. Once the patient has the above symptoms, he must go to the hospital for diagnosis and examination in time to diagnose the disease in time, so as to receive early treatment and reduce the harm caused by pituitary tumors.