Pre- and peroperative misdiagnosed sellar tumour.

Selvais, Philippe;Raftopoulos, Christian;Godfraind, Catherine;Duprez, Thierry;Maiter, Dominique;et.al.
(1998) Acta Clinica Belgica (Multilingual Edition) — Vol. 53, n° 3, p. 203-205 (1998)

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  • Selvais, Philippe
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  • Raftopoulos, ChristianUCLouvain
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  • Godfraind, CatherineUCLouvain
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  • Duprez, ThierryUCLouvain
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  • Thauvoy, ChristianUCLouvain
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  • Buysschaert, MartinUCLouvain
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  • Maiter, DominiqueUCLouvain
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We describe the case of a 76-year old woman complaining of headaches and progressive sight loss. Cerebral CT scan and MRI disclosed a large sellar tumour. Endocrine evaluation showed no evidence of pituitary hypersecretion, but a slight hyperprolactinemia related to stalk compression. A non-functioning pituitary adenoma was suspected. The pathological diagnosis was however a meningioma. In the literature, about 5% of sellar tumours are not pituitary adenomas and this is an alternate diagnosis to consider in the presence of non-secreting macroadenomas.
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Selvais, P., Raftopoulos, C., Godfraind, C., Duprez, T., Thauvoy, C., Buysschaert, M., & Maiter, D. (1998). Pre- and peroperative misdiagnosed sellar tumour. Acta Clinica Belgica (Multilingual Edition), 53(3), 203-205. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/129462 (Original work published 1998)