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Hypophyseal metastatic hypernephroma mimicking a pituitary adenoma. Case report

✍ Scribed by Shunji Nishio; Harutoshi Tsukamoto; Masashi Fukui; Toshiyuki Matsubara

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
442 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0344-5607

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✦ Synopsis

A patient with a remote history of nephrectomy for hypernephroma presented a visual field defect with hypopituitarism. Neuro-imaging studies showed a highly vascularized sellar mass with suprasellar extension. Surgery, which was performed via the subfrontal approach, disclosed the pituitary tumor to be a hypernephroma. Although anterior pituitary involvement is rare, chiasmal compression is much rarer in metastatic pituitary carcinomas, a review of previously reported cases of metastatic pituitary hypernephroma and our own case indicated that pituitary metastasis from this carcinoma, in contrast to other metastatic pituitary tumors, often mimics pituitary adenoma.

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