Giant Prolactinoma Presenting As a Base of Skull Tumor With Nasopharyngeal Extension: A Potential Diagnostic Pitfall in Neuroendocrine Lesions of the Base of Skull
| Autor: | Bayardo Perez-Ordonez, Lillian L. Siu, Amy Prawira, Dorothy Lazinski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Infarction Case Report Skull Base Neoplasms Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pituitary adenoma Cabergoline medicine Carcinoma Humans Pituitary Neoplasms Prolactinoma Diagnostic Errors 030223 otorhinolaryngology Base of skull business.industry Sinonasal Tract medicine.disease Carcinoma Neuroendocrine Oncology Otorhinolaryngology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis business Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Head and neck pathology. 11(4) |
| ISSN: | 1936-0568 |
| Popis: | Pituitary adenomas presenting in uncommon anatomical locations are commonly misdiagnosed. Dramatic clinical presentation with hemorrhage and infarction, along with a lack of endocrine symptoms may further confound the diagnosis in some patients as illustrated in one of our two previously reported cases of non-small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the sinonasal tract and nasopharynx. This report presents the clinical progress of case number 2, which has a revised diagnosis of giant lactotroph pituitary adenoma. Common clinical, radiological and pathological pitfalls in diagnosis of neuroendocrine neoplasms of the sinonasal tract and base of skull are discussed. |
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