Proper baseline workup should be initiated before referring patients with incidental pituitary adenomas to a specialist. The initial workup includes imaging, blood work to determine if the pituitary ...

Purpose To determine new criteria for early detection of temporal hemianopia in patients with asymptomatic pituitary tumor. Methods Fifteen patients without visual symptoms had pituitary tumor and ...

A 47 year-old woman developed progressive headaches and difficulty with her vision. Neurological examination revealed a bitemporal hemianopsia. Pituitary Macroadenoma. T1-weighted coronal MRI. Note ...

April 12, 2011 — The Endocrine Society has issued clinical guidelines for the endocrine assessment and treatment of pituitary incidentaloma that indicates surgical therapy under some conditions.

With the widespread use of computed tomography and MRI, the incidental discovery of pituitary incidentalomas is increasing in frequency. The most common cause of a pituitary mass is a pituitary ...

A 63-year-old man was referred to the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroendocrine & Pituitary Tumor Clinical Center for management of a pituitary macroadenoma. He experienced increasingly severe ...

On the basis of current evidence, FRT and SRS are both highly effective in controlling tumor growth in most pituitary adenomas; SRS seems to correct excessive hormone secretion faster than does FRT ...

A Puerto Rican woman aged 50 years presented to an ophthalmologist with complaints of vision changes, including difficulty seeing images in her peripheral vision in both eyes and difficulty in color ...

Craniopharyngiomas account for 2–5% of all primary brain tumors and 5–10% of pediatric brain tumors. Despite their benign ...

A 68-year-old man was initially examined in the emergency department after sustaining trauma to his head after a fall on ice outside his home. He was on therapeutic anticoagulation treatment for ...

An interdisciplinary team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons has used a new imaging technique to show how the human brain heals itself in just a few weeks following surgical removal of a brain tumor ...

A 47 year-old woman developed progressive headaches and difficulty with her vision. Neurological examination revealed a bitemporal hemianopsia. Pituitary Macroadenoma. (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI; ...