In the absence of significant extracranial disease, patients with solitary brain metastases have shown benefit with resection. Brain lesions due to endometrial cancer are uncommon, and the only described skull base involvement is limited to the pituitary gland. We report the case of a 60-year-old female with endometrial cancer who presented with weeks of right cheek pain and numbness that was a...

Intradural metastatic tumors are rarely reported in foramen magnum (FM), including cases of melanoma, pituitary carcinoma, thyroid carcinoma, and prostate carcinoma metastases. We report a 68-year-old male who presented with right-sided headache, progressive swallowing difficulty requiring gastrostomy tube and hoarseness over the course of 1 year. Images revealed a heterogeneous, contrast-enhan...

background invasive aspergillosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in immunosuppressed patients. thisn infection is caused by aspergillus, a hyaline mold, which is the etiologic agent for many different manifestations. patient a 63 year old diabetic housewife woman, living in northern iran, presented with the history of right eye ptosis after a mild head trauma since about 3 weeks ag...

background: pectic acid extracted from plants increases the secretion of prolactin (prl) when injected intravenously into ewes or fed to rats. fragments of ewe hypophysis and lactating rabbit mammary gland incubated in vitro in the presence of pectic acid secreted more prl and caseins compared to the controls. however, it is not known whether pectic acid directly stimulates prl secretion in pit...

conclusions radiological findings pleaded for a pituitary stone, but calcified adenomas in women, and calcified craniopharyngioma in the pediatric case could not be excluded, as our three patients were not operated on. introduction pituitary stone or pituitary calculus is a scientific enigma characterized by a large calcification in the pituitary sella. it can be discovered incidentally or in a...

Pituitary carcinomas are extremely rare. In general, the initial clinical, biochemical, and histological characteristics are of minimal utility in distinguishing benign adenomas from pituitary carcinomas. We describe a 63-year-old woman with a macroprolactinoma, who presented with diplopia and blurred vision. This unusual initial presentation and the subsequent aggressive clinical course, with ...

Pituitary tumours, the most frequent intracranial tumour, are historically considered benign. However, various pieces of clinical evidence and recent advances in pathological and molecular analyses suggest the need to consider these tumours as more than an endocrinological disease, despite the low incidence of metastasis. Recently, we proposed a new prognostic clinicopathological classification...