The nose becomes wider and the lips become thicker. The longer it gets, the uglier it becomes. Beware of pituitary tumors!

Everyone has the love of beauty
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Widened nose and swollen lips are actually caused by pituitary tumors

Ms.
Huang (a pseudonym) from Guangzhou is 49 years old this year, and something that has caused her to collapse recently
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She found that her appearance had changed and her voice had become rough
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However, with the passage of time, she became more and more ugly, her nose widened, lips swollen, and her hands and feet became larger and thicker.
The size 36 she usually wears was completely inaccessible, and her snoring at night became more and more serious.
High blood pressure was detected
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Feeling wrong, she went to the hospital and found Wang Mo, the deputy chief physician of neurosurgery at the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province
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Before surgery, the arrow points to the tumor

Wang Mo introduced that the pituitary gland is located at the center of the bottom of the brain.
Although it is only the size of a pea, it has powerful endocrine functions and can secrete many hormones such as growth hormone.
Most of the various life activities of the human body cannot do without it
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Due to various factors such as external stimulation and genetics, tumors grow on the pituitary gland, which is called pituitary tumor
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Excessive secretion of growth hormone can lead to gigantism in adolescents, and acromegaly in adulthood, and not only changes in bones.
Cardiac hyperplasia can lead to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, vascular smooth muscle hyperplasia can lead to hypertension, and intestinal hyperplasia can lead to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Spontaneous volvulus, even intestinal obstruction, and so on
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Removal of tumor without craniotomy and transnasal sphenoid minimally invasive surgery

When I heard that there was a tumor in her brain, Ms.
Huang's mood became dull
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Wang Mo said: “Most pituitary tumors are benign tumors.
In the past, craniotomy was required to remove such pituitary tumors.
However, with the rapid development of medical equipment and medical technology, neuroendoscopic transnasal sphenoid surgery can now be used.
To remove the pituitary tumor, thereby greatly reducing the trauma to the brain
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Why is the tumor clearly growing in the brain, but the operation is performed from the nose?

Wang Mo patiently explained that most of them are benign tumors.
In the past, resection of this pituitary tumor required craniotomy, but with the rapid development of medical equipment and medical technology, neuroendoscopic transnasal sphenoid surgery can be used for resection.
Pituitary tumors, thereby greatly reducing the trauma to the brain
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After listening to the doctor's explanation, Ms.
Huang finally agreed to surgical removal
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Ms.
Huang was very grateful, and she shook the doctor's hand and said gratefully, "Thanks to you!"

After surgery, successfully removed

Experts remind that these symptoms need to be alert to pituitary tumors

Although growth hormone adenoma is not big, the harm caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone is great! Growth hormone adenomas usually develop slowly, have hidden symptoms, and are not easy to attract attention.
The overall incidence of the disease in the population is low and relatively rare
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Wang Mo reminded that in addition to the typical acromegaly facial features such as protruding forehead, protruding mandible, and lip hypertrophy, growth hormone-type pituitary tumors can also cause the following symptoms:

First, headaches are accompanied by decreased vision or even blindness.
The enlargement of the tumor causes hydrocephalus, which can lead to coma and death;

Second, bone and joint pain can easily be misdiagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis;

Third, secondary diabetes (the release of too much growth hormone from pituitary tumors leads to increased blood sugar), which is easy to be treated as normal primary diabetes;

Fourth, sleep snoring, the occurrence of sleep apnea syndrome, can cause sudden death;

Fifth, cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure can cause sudden death
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Wang Mo suggested that patients with diabetes should consider routine growth hormone tests to rule out diabetes secondary to growth hormone-type pituitary tumors
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If there is unexplained joint pain, obvious snoring, or the shoe size gradually increases in adulthood, you can go to the neurosurgery clinic to test for growth hormone to determine whether it is caused by growth hormone pituitary tumor