Review Note
Last Update: 02/18/2024 05:30 AM
Current Deck: Part 2::1. Subsites::CNS::Pituitary tumours
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CNS | Pituitary tumours | 1.4 | Biologic behaviour and clinical presentation
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- Long natural history, often with insidious symptoms
- Slow or no detectable radiologic progression
- Nearly all pituitary tumours arise from anterior lobe
- May cause symptoms due to local extension and mass effect
- Visual field defects
- Chiasm comrpession
- Often bitemporal hemianopia
- CN 3, 4, 6, V1 and V2 defects → cavernous sinus
- Headache
- Diplopia
- Pituitary apoplexy
- CSF rhinorrhoea
- Parinaud syndrome
- Hormonal abnormalities
- Hypogonadism most common
- Incidental finding on MRI
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