The use of intraoperative MRI, especially with transsphenoidal reoperations for invasive and noninvasive pituitary macroadenomas, leads to significantly higher “gross tumor resection” rates.

References 1. Russ S, Anastasopoulou C, Shafiq I. Pituitary adenoma. 2021 Jul 18. In: StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. Updated July 18, 2021. 2. Greenberg MS. Tumors of non-neural ...

Your surgical team may ask you to bring previous test results, including: imaging scans, hormone test results, and ophthalmology reports. During your first visit, our team will discuss these results ...

Pituitary uptake of 123 I-epidepride did not predict patients' responses to dopamine-agonist therapy, although when tumor shrinkage was defined as a decrease of >20% on MRI, there was a trend for ...

These tumors may present with signs of an intracranial mass, such as headache and visual-field defects. The prolactinoma is the most common type of pituitary tumor. [3] ...

Pediatric pituitary tumors, an overall rare entity, are often identified when children undergo imaging studies of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis for a suspected endocrine disorder. Castellanos ...

Pituitary microadenomas are small, noncancerous tumors that develop in the pituitary gland. Doctors mainly detect them incidentally from imaging tests done for other reasons.

Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome Caused by an FSH-Secreting Pituitary Adenoma Odelia Cooper; Jordan L Geller; Shlomo Melmed Disclosures Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2008;4 (4):234-238.

Corticotroph adenomas, for example, are pituitary tumors that make extra adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). Too much ACTH cues the body to produce an excess of cortisol, which can cause: ...

A pituitary tumor can lead to high blood pressure, high blood sugar, muscle fatigue and brain fog. If left untreated, it can lead to diabetes and heart attacks.

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program data from 2004 to 2018 show an incidence rate of pituitary adenomas and pituitary incidentalomas of 4.28 ± 0.04 and 1.53 ± 0.02 per ...