The authors report a case of a patient with giant, invasive skull base tumor extending to the
parasellar area discovered incidentally during the work-up for decreased memory. The …

The differential diagnosis of tumors at the base of the skull comprises meningiomas,
neurinomas, gliomas, metastatic carcinomas, chordomas, epidermoids, and pituitary …

BACKGROUND: Prolactinomas invading the skull base are rare, and could easily be
confused with skull base tumors of nonpituitary origin. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a …

We present a 68-year-old male patient with an exceptionally aggressive tumour which
invaded to the skull base, cavernous sinus, nasopharynx, sphenoid sinus, pituitary fossa …

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: We present a case of a giant prolactinoma with a falsely
low serum prolactin concentration determined by a two-site chemiluminometric assay …

Four giant prolactin-secreting tumours invading the skull base are described. All of them
occurred in men. The presenting features were sufficiently diverse to be clinically …

INTRODUCTION Malignant prolactinoma is an exceedingly rare endocrine tumor and
cannot be diagnosed on histological grounds alone. Similarly to other neuroendocrine …

Therapeutic shrinkage of prolactinomas with dopamine agonists achieves clinical benefit but
can expose fistulae that have arisen as a result of bony erosion of the sella floor and anterior …

Very large prolactinomas are rare and may be difficult to treat. We present the report of a
patient with an exceptionally aggressive tumour which extended outside the skull and …

Patients with large prolactin (PRL)-secreting pituitary adenoma often have symptoms due to
varying degree of hypopituitarism and/or mass effect on visual structures, while presentation …