Sixteen young women with hyperprolactinaemia and normal or equivocal sella in radiographs underwent computed tomography using a Siemens Somatom II. In all but one case an abnormality was found. The sella was full in seven and partially empty in nine. A tumour was visible in six of the full and in four of the partially empty sellae. All but one of the 10 tumours was unilateral, and in seven the ...

The author examined unusual extrahepatic metastatic sites from liver hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) in autopsy and surgical files at our laboratory in the last 10 years. In autopsy cases (n=31), extrahepatic metastases were present in 21 cases (68%). The most common metastatic sites were lung (n=18). Unusual extrahepatic metastatic sites in the autopsy series were abdominal regional lymph nod...

Pituitary gangliocytomas are uncommon benign tumors (less than 100 cases have been reported to date)1-6 with a low proliferation potential and a slow growth. Histologically, most pituitary gangliocytomas are mixed tumors consisting of neuronal ganglion cells and an adenomatous proliferation of adenohypophyseal cells4,7,8; both components may occur as a single nodule or coexist as separate but a...

Sickle cell anemia is a disease caused by production of abnormal hemoglobin. Infection, acute splenic sequestration crisis, aplastic crises, acute chest syndrome, stroke, cholelithiasis, renal disease and pain are the major complications. Unilateral or bilateral diaphragm paralysis maybe seen following phrenic nerve injury and with a variety of motor-neuron diseases, myelopathies, neuropathies,...

Purpose: Assessment of the efficacy of nasoseptal vascularized flap (NSF) in reconstructing the skull base defects after transsphenoidal procedures and CSF rhinorrhea. Material and Methods: Thirteen patients with intraoperative diagnosis of skull base defects and/or CSF leak after endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery or preoperative diagnosis of CSF rrhinorhea were included in this study. Multila...