World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2009 Background Pituitary carcinomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors affecting the adenohypophysis. The hallmark of these lesions is the demonstration of distant metastatic spread. To date, few well-documented cases have been reported in the literature.
Sippel Rebecca +2 more
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Post-Partum Pituitary Insufficiency and Livedo Reticularis Presenting a Diagnostic Challenge in a Resource Limited Setting in Tanzania: A Case Report, Clinical Discussion and Brief Review of Existing Literature. [PDF]
, 2012 Pituitary disorders following pregnancy are an important yet under reported clinical entity in the developing world. Conversely, post partum panhypopituitarism has a more devastating impact on women in such settings due to high fertility rates, poor ...
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Pituitary metastases as a rare variant of intracranial metastasis
Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2008 Metastatiс spread of neoplasms to the pituitary gland is a relatively common finding in autopsy series of cancer patients. The majority of these patients were asymptomatic.
A. V. Osnitskaya, V. Ye. Olyushin
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A retrospective analysis of postoperative hypokalemia in pituitary adenomas after transsphenoidal surgery [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Pituitary adenoma is one of the most common intracranial neoplasms, and its primary treatment is endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal tumorectomy.
Lili You +5 more
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Resistant prolactinoma: Is it monoclonal or polyclonal?
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2013 Prolactinomas are solitary benign neoplasms and resistance to dopamine agonists occur in a small percentage of prolactinomas. Multiple pituitary adenomas are reported in less than 1% of pituitary adenomas and rarely result in resistant prolactinoma.
K. V. S. Hari Kumar, Pitambar Prusty
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The FGFR4-G388R polymorphism promotes mitochondrial STAT3 serine phosphorylation to facilitate pituitary growth hormone cell tumorigenesis. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2011 Pituitary tumors are common intracranial neoplasms, yet few germline abnormalities have been implicated in their pathogenesis. Here we show that a single nucleotide germline polymorphism (SNP) substituting an arginine (R) for glycine (G) in the FGFR4 ...
Toru Tateno +5 more
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Pituitary tumors and the risk of other malignancies: is the relationship coincidental or causal?
Endocrine Oncology, 2023 Pituitary adenomas are benign neoplasms of the pituitary. The most prevalent are prolactinomas and non-functioning pituitary adenomas, followed by growth hormone-and ACTH-secreting adenomas.
Sandra Pekic +2 more
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A case report of a rare intramuscular granular cell tumor [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Granular cell tumors (GCTs) were firstly described by Weber in 1854 and 70 years later by Abrikossoff and classified as benign tumors. Originally considered muscle tumors, they have been identified as neural lesions, due to their close ...
Cacciotti, Jessica +8 more
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Expressions of Cushing’s syndrome in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 Cushing’s syndrome (CS) resulting from endogenous hypercortisolism can be sporadic or can occur in the context of familial disease because of pituitary or extra-pituitary neuroendocrine tumors.
William F. Simonds
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Radiation-associated sarcoma of the skull base after irradiation for pituitary adenoma
Rare Tumors, 2012 Secondary, radiation-induced neoplasms represent a significant long-term risk after radiation treatment, and radiation-induced sarcomas (RAS) have an especially poor prognosis. These have rarely been reported after irradiation for pituitary adenomas.
Cara L. Sedney +4 more
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