its best to think about pituitary adenomas as one of three big options, prolactin secreting, ACTH secreting, or GH secreting. The only pituitary tumor that causes osteoporosis and therefore the compression fractures seen in the questions could be a ACTH secreting pituitary adenoma (note: macroadenoma just means that the tumor is >10mm in size). increased ACTH leads to increased cortisol and therefore decreased osteoblastic activity (bone formation) = osteoporosis
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submitted by trichotillomaniac(15), 2019-07-07T23:55:23Z
its best to think about pituitary adenomas as one of three big options, prolactin secreting, ACTH secreting, or GH secreting. The only pituitary tumor that causes osteoporosis and therefore the compression fractures seen in the questions could be a ACTH secreting pituitary adenoma (note: macroadenoma just means that the tumor is >10mm in size). increased ACTH leads to increased cortisol and therefore decreased osteoblastic activity (bone formation) = osteoporosis