Malignant prolactinoma: case report and review of the literature

A Popadić, A Witzmann, M Buchfelder, H Eiter… - Surgical neurology, 1999 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND Malignant prolactinomas are rare events. To date, only 14 patients with
metastases in-or outside the central nervous system have been reported. CASE …

Pituitary carcinomas

A Colao, AS Ochoa, RS Auriemma, A Faggiano… - Pituitary Today II, 2010 - karger.com
Pituitary carcinoma is a extremely rare and is characterized by a very poor prognosis. Even if
at diagnosis the presence of metastases is required to define a pituitary carcinoma, the …

Primary carcinoma of the pituitary gland with Cushing's syndrome and metastases. Apropos of a case with review of the literature

H Levesque, P Freger, A Gancel, J Tayot… - La Revue de …, 1991 - europepmc.org
We report the case of a 25 year old man with pituitary carcinoma with Cushing's syndrome.
Though the diagnosis was initially proposed, it was only confirmed by the appearance of …

ACTH-producing carcinoma of the pituitary with refractory Cushing's Disease and hepatic metastases: a case report and review of the literature

SN Pinchot, R Sippel, H Chen - World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2009 - Springer
Background Pituitary carcinomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors affecting the
adenohypophysis. The hallmark of these lesions is the demonstration of distant metastatic …

Panhypopituitarism secondary to pituitary metastases

C Pinet, V Raholimina, RM Ferri… - … (Paris, France: 1983 …, 2000 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Hypophyseal metastatic localizations are uncommon and rarely the first
expression of a primary cancer. We report an exceptional case revealed by …

Pituitary carcinoma

CA Sansur, EH Oldfield - Seminars in oncology, 2010 - Elsevier
Pituitary carcinoma is defined by metastasis of a pituitary tumor to a distant location.
Although rare, pituitary carcinoma is becoming an increasingly recognized entity among …

Atypical pituitary adenoma with malignant features

AN Mamelak, JD Carmichael, P Park, S Bannykh… - Pituitary, 2011 - Springer
Pituitary carcinoma is characterized by the presence of systemic or central nervous system
metastases rather than malignant histological features, making it an anomaly amongst …

Endocrine inactive pituitary carcinoma metastasizing to cervical lymph nodes: a case report

P Luzi, C Miracco, R Lio, A Malandrini, S Piovani… - Human pathology, 1987 - Elsevier
A 64-year-old woman experienced an episode of disorientation in relation to time, place,
and people, as well as of visual defect and impaired balance. Physical examination showed …

Pituitary carcinoma with subependymal spread

K Kumar, JR Wilson, Q Li, R Phillipson - Canadian journal of …, 2006 - cambridge.org
Pituitary carcinomas have been reported to metastasize systemically and, less commonly,
along the craniospinal axis. Metastatic lesions have been reported in the cerebral cortex …

Prolactin-containing pituitary adenomas: Their characteristics and comparative study with non-prolactin adenomas

DM Ho, HC Liu - Pathology-Research and Practice, 1992 - Elsevier
Immunohistochemical study of 130 pituitary adenomas shows that 31% are prolactin-
containing adenomas, two-thirds of which are monohormonal adenomas, ie prolactin cell …