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 ...

Trans-sphenoidal surgery is the treatment of choice for patients with nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas. After surgery, some patients undergo radiotherapy aimed at preventing regrowth of the ...

A 74-year-old patient had a nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenoma surgically removed via the transsphenoidal approach approximately 20 years ago. A recent MRI has shown recurrence with mild mass ...

Mortality remains high for patients with non-functioning pituitary macroadenoma, despite improvements over the last 30 years, according to recent study findings presented at the Society for ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — North Carolina Congressman Greg Murphy (R, NC-03) announced on Tuesday he is having brain surgery. In a news release, Murphy revealed he has been diagnosed with a base of skull ...

A minimally invasive endoscopic procedure holds promise for safely removing large brain tumors from an area at the bottom of the skull, near the sinus cavities, clinical researchers have found. A ...

A 58 year-old woman developed daily headaches and blurred vision. On neurological examination, she had a bitemporal field deficit. Pituitary Macroadenoma. (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI; (Right) ...

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 ...

Pituitary tumors are a problem that can go undiagnosed for your entire life. In most cases they are benign, but in some rare cases, they can be malignant. Michelle met with Dr. Jay Jagannathan from to ...

The study covered in this summary was published on Research Square as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. The researchers suggest using as a cutoff a copeptin level of >3.4 pmol/L at ...