The irreversible consequences of late diagnosis of pituitary macroadenoma in a young patient

Abstract

Pituitary tumors represent approximately 15% of all brain tumors and depending on size, pressure optic chiasma, resulting in impaired visual func-tion that manifests itself as defective in the visual field, decreased acuity visual and color vision. The ob-jetive of the present study was to report a case of pitui-tary macroadenoma with compression of optical chiasma and visual field de-fect, initially treated as glaucoma, leading to a late diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords:
Pituitary gland; Pituitary diseases; Pituitary neoplasms