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A case of post-traumatic chronic pan-hypopituitarism in a 22 year old man is reported. Post-mortem examination revealed gliosis of the posterior hypothalamus, sclerosis of the neuro-hypophysis, cellular atrophy of the adenohypophysis, with relative hyperplasia of the basophil cells, atrophy of the endocrine target glands. Clinical and morphological findings are correlated and discussed.
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Bevilacqua, G., Fornaciari, G. Clinico-pathological correlations in a case of post traumatic pan-hypopituitarism. Acta Neuropathol 31, 171–177 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00688151
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