The objective of this study was to evaluate the pituitary gland dimensions due to age and weight using computed tomography (CT) in dogs and cats. The CT images of pituitary gland were assessed in 11 client-owned dogs (six males and five females; age range, 1 to 9 years) and 15 client-owned cats (eight males and seven females; age range, 1 to 14 years) with no evidence of pituitary diseases. The...

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...

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...

abstract a 71-year-old male with a long history of diabetes and hypertension was admitted with mild azotemia and recurrent hyponatremia. he was diagnosed with a pituitary gland cystic tumor. on careful evaluation, his hyponatremia was found to be due to cerebral salt wasting. the patient made a full recovery following treatment for cerebral salt wasting.

pituitary gland metastasis was seen in elderly patients, and the incidence of pituitary metastasis is 1% to 4% of all cancer patients. renal cell carcinoma is a primary malignancy in only 2.6% of pituitary metastases. we reported a 50-year-old man with pituitary metastasis from renal cell carcinoma that had signs of diabetes insipidus. he had multiple lesions in both lungs, and bone scan involv...

Metastasis from breast cancer to other parts of the body is very common, but the spread of the tumor to pituitary gland, especially to infandibulum, is a rare presentation. At the time of pituitary metastasis, a majority of the patients have clinical and radiological evidence of the disease. It seems that the posterior area of the gland is the most common site of metastasis, probably due to hig...

UNLABELLED We have developed a new imaging method to evaluate the blood perfusion and ammonia metabolism of the pituitary gland, and we preliminarily assessed its role in the diagnosis of hypopituitarism. METHODS Six female healthy volunteers (age range, 20-46 y) and 6 female patients (age range, 23-42 y) were enrolled in this study. Dynamic (13)N-NH(3) PET was performed. Time-activity curves...