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. 2003 May;24(5):956–961.

TABLE 1:

Pituitary duplications

Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5
Sex, age Male, 1 year Female, 2 days Female, 1 day Female, 28 weeks’ gestation Female, 2 days
Clinical presentation Macrocephaly, mild facial dysmorphism, developmental delay Protruding whitish mass from oral cavity Craniofacial deformity Prematurity, hydrocephalus with intraventricular hemorrhage on ultrasonogram Suspected choanal atresia
Pituitary gland, duplicated pituitary and stalk Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hypothalamic thickening and tubomammillary fusion Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Duplicated pituitary fossae and cleft basisphenoid Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sphenopharyngeal canal No Yes No Yes No
Hypertelorism Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Corpus callosum Normal Agenesis Agenesis Agenesis Normal
Mouth and nasopharynx Normal Cleft palate, oral dermoid, frontonasal dysplasia Jaw teratoma, syngnathia, sphenomandibular-maxillary fusion, cleft palate Cleft palate Oral “hairy” dermoid, posterior cleft through bony palate
Posterior fossa Wide pons, prominent ventral raphe Normal Normal Lower brain stem tethered anteriorly to pharynx through cleft above anterior arch of C1 with basion Lower brain stem tethered anteriorly to pharynx through cleft above anterior arch of C1 with basion
Basilar artery Duplicated, MR angiogram available Duplicated, only spin-echo images available Duplicated, only spin-echo images available Duplicated, MR angiogram available Duplicated, MR angiogram available
Cervical spine anomalies/anomalies of basion Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes