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What are the effects of pituitary masses compressing each part of the surrounding?

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Pituitary (pan failure) Optic tract (loss of red perception, blindness...) Hypothalamus (temp dysregulation, obesity, DI, sleep, thirst and apetite) Cavernous sinus (ptosis, diplopia, ophthalmoplegia...) temporal lobe (seizures) Frontal lobe (personality disorder or anosmia) Central (headache...)


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