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  1. J.P.C. Peper

    J.P.C. Peper Bronze Member

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    What’s your diagnosis?

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    J.P.C. Peper, Aug 12, 2012
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    Empty Sella Syndrome
     

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    macroadenoma of hypophysis
     

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    Agree with dracomalfoy,ESS
     

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    pitutary adenoma
     

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    Both the saggital and the coronal MRI images show a lesion in the pituitary fossa, most likely a hemorrhagic pituitary adenoma. Differential diagnosis includes a Rathke’s cleft cyst.

    Pituitary tumours are practically always benign. The are three hostological types of pituitary adenoma:

    1) chromophobe (70%, many are non-secretory)
    2) acidophil (15%, secrete GH or PRL)
    3) basophil (15%, secrete ACTH)
     

    J.P.C. Peper, Aug 15, 2012
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