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Duplication of the pituitary gland in a newborn with median cleft face syndrome and nasal teratoma

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A newborn suffered immediate neonatal respiratory distress because of an obstructive, soft-tissue nasal mass. Clinical examination revealed a cleft palate with a protruding polypoid mass. CT and MRI showed a heterogeneous nasopharyngeal mass and associated intracranial abnormalities – duplication of the hypophysis and hypoplasia of the corpus callosum. Duplication of the hypophysis is a very rare malformation, only 13 cases having been previously described. The suggested pathogenesis is duplication of the prechordal plate and anterior end of the notochord during early embryological development.

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  1. Service de Neuroradiologie, Hôpital Roger Salengro, CHRU Lille, France, , , , , , FR

    Michèle Hamon-Kérautret, Gustavo Soto Ares, Xavier Demondion & Jean-Pierre Pruvo

  2. Service de Neonatologie, Hôpital Roger Salengro, CHRU Lille, France, , , , , , FR

    Véronique Rouland

  3. Departement d'Anatomie, Faculté de Medicine Université de Lille., , , , ,

    Jean-Paul Francke

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  1. Michèle Hamon-Kérautret
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Received: 12 September 1997 Accepted: 18 September 1997

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Hamon-Kérautret, M., Ares, G., Demondion, X. et al. Duplication of the pituitary gland in a newborn with median cleft face syndrome and nasal teratoma. Pediatric Radiology 28, 290–292 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002470050354

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