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 …

Aggressive pituitary tumours and pituitary carcinomas

G Raverot, MD Ilie, H Lasolle, V Amodru… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Although usually benign, anterior pituitary tumours occasionally exhibit aggressive
behaviour, with invasion of surrounding tissues, rapid growth, resistance to conventional …

Pituitary carcinoma-case series and review of the literature

S Du Four, J Van Der Veken, J Duerinck… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Although pituitary adenomas (PAs) account for 15% of intracranial tumors, pituitary
carcinomas (PCs) are a rare entity. Most commonly, PCs evolve from aggressive PAs …

Pituitary tumor endocrinopathies and their endocrine evaluation

MF Simard - Neurosurgery Clinics, 2003 - neurosurgery.theclinics.com
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A pituitary carcinoma secreting TSH and prolactin: a non-secreting adenoma gone awry

RL Brown, T Muzzafar, R Wollman… - European journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
To our knowledge, only one case of a TSH-secreting carcinoma has previously been
reported. We describe here a second patient with a pituitary carcinoma producing TSH and …

Prolactin‐producing pituitary carcinoma with pulmonary metastases

DM Atienza, RJ Vigersky, EE Lack, M Carriaga… - Cancer, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Pituitary adenomas rarely are metastatic. Extracranial visceral metastases of prolactinomas
were not previously reported. The authors report a case of a 34‐year‐old man with a …

Pituitary carcinomas

W Saeger, D Lübke - Endocrine Pathology, 1996 - Springer
Pituitary carcinomas are defined by their metastatic growth. Most of them also invade into
surrounding tissues. They should be classified by the site of their metastases (cerebrospinal …

Diagnosis and management of prolactinomas

JR Dollar, RE Blackwell - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 1986 - Springer
Prolactin secreting tumors account for ten to twenty percent of all intracranial lesions. The
patients harboring these tumors present with amenorrhea, galactorrhea, other ovulatory …

Radiotherapy for prolactin-secreting pituitary tumors

LJ Sheplan Olsen, L Robles Irizarry, ST Chao, RJ Weil… - Pituitary, 2012 - Springer
Review the medical and surgical management of patients with prolactinomas and provide
an in-depth appraisal of the role of radiotherapy in the treatment of prolactinomas. A …

Idiopathic prolactin cell hyperplasia of the pituitary mimicking prolactin cell adenoma: a morphological study including immunocytochemistry, electron microscopy, and …

V Jay, K Kovacs, E Horvath, RV Lloyd, HS Smyth - Acta neuropathologica, 1991 - Springer
Prolactin cell adenoma is the most frequently found lesion in surgically removed pituitaries
of patients with hyperprolactinemia. However, in several instances, instead of prolactin cell …