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Imaging Recommendations for Diagnosis, Staging, and Management of Primary Central Nervous System Neoplasms in Adults

Neuroglia
Central nervous system (CNS) neoplasms are a vast and diverse group of tumors in adults with variable prognoses depending on histology and increasingly understood molecular features.
Kajari Bhattacharya, Abhishek Mahajan
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The Epigenomics of Pituitary Adenoma

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2019
Background: The vast majority of pituitary tumors are benign and behave accordingly; however, a fraction are invasive and are more aggressive, with a very small fraction being frankly malignant.
Blake M. Hauser, Ashley Lau, Saksham Gupta, Wenya Linda Bi, Ian F. Dunn   +4 more
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Cortisol Secreting Adrenal Adenoma in a 5 Year Old Child [PDF]

, 2011
Adrenal adenoma is a rare endocrinal tumor in children. It can present with features of Cushing's syndrome. We present a case report of five years old female child who came with morbid obesity and hypertension.
Narang, Gursharan Singh, Pahwa, Jivtesh Singh   +1 more
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Matrix metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors as novel markers in invasive pituitary adenomas – a review

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019
Introduction: Pituitary adenomas are generally benign central nervous system neoplasms with still increasing prevalence, especially in younger people.
Joanna Szydełko, Michał Litwińczuk, Magdalena Szydełko   +2 more
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Pituitary Metastatic Composite Tumors: A Case Report with Next-Generation Sequencing and Review of the Literature

Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, 2020
Background. While pituitary tumors are well understood, little research has been done on metastasis from primary tumors into pituitary adenomas, also known as composite tumors. Because only 34 cases of composite tumors have been reported to date, we hope
Matthew Helton, Muhammad Abu-Rmaileh, Kevin Thomas, Murat Gokden, Alissa Kanaan, Analiz Rodriguez   +5 more
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Craniopharyngiomas: immunohistochemical evaluation of prognostic factors [PDF]

, 2017
Craniopharyngiomas (CPs) are a heterogeneous group of benign but locally aggressive epithelial tumors arising within the sellar region, along the path of craniopharyngeal duct.
Somma, Anna
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Mutation analysis of inhibitory guanine nucleotide binding protein alpha (GNAI) loci in young and familial pituitary adenomas.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Pituitary adenomas are neoplasms of the anterior pituitary lobe and account for 15-20% of all intracranial tumors. Although most pituitary tumors are benign they can cause severe symptoms related to tumor size as well as hypopituitarism and/or ...
Hande Demir, Iikki Donner, Leena Kivipelto, Outi Kuismin, Camilla Schalin-Jäntti, Ernesto De Menis, Auli Karhu   +6 more
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A patient with a germline SDHB mutation presenting with an isolated pituitary macroprolactinoma

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case Reports, 2018
Symptomatic pituitary adenomas occur with a prevalence of approximately 0.1% in the general population. It is estimated that 5% of pituitary adenomas occur in a familial setting, either in isolated or syndromic form.
Michelle Maher, Federico Roncaroli, Nigel Mendoza, Karim Meeran, Natalie Canham, Monika Kosicka-Slawinska, Birgitta Bernhard, David Collier, Juliana Drummond, Kassiani Skordilis, Nicola Tufton, Anastasia Gontsarova, Niamh Martin, Márta Korbonits, Florian Wernig   +14 more
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The prospective roles of exosomes in pituitary tumors

Frontiers in Endocrinology
Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors are common, typically benign intracranial neoplasms arising from well-differentiated anterior pituitary cells with prevalence of clinically relevant pituitary tumor of 89 in 100 000 people.
Paulina Lisiewicz, Małgorzata Szelachowska, Adam Jacek Krętowski, Katarzyna Siewko   +3 more
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Decreased Vision and Junctional Scotoma from Pituicytoma

Case Reports in Ophthalmology, 2012
Pituicytomas are rare neoplasms of the sellar region. We report a case of vision loss and a junctional scotoma in a 43-year-old woman caused by compression of the optic chiasm by a pituitary tumor.
Nancy Huynh, Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, Brooke Swearingen, Dean M. Cestari   +3 more
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