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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302004000300016
A 21-year-old woman complaining of 8-month amenorrhea associated to weight gain, galactorrhea and frequent headaches, presented for clinical evaluation; her laboratory tests were: TSH: 1192 mUI/ml (0.27-4.2); TT4: 1.0 mg/dl (4.4-11.4l); TT3: 0.41 ng/ml (0.7-2.1); prolactin: 69.2 ng/ml (3-20) and a diagnosis of myxedema associated to galactorrhea was made. A hypothalamic-pituitary magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a suprasellar and intrasellar mass lesion of 1.9 x 1.4 x 1.9 cm, determining compression and deviation of the optic chiasm. Due to the […]
Keywords: Galactorrhea; Myxedema; Pituitary hyperplasia; Pituitary macroadenoma; Primary hypothyroisdim