Invasive pituitary adenoma coexisting with infiltrating temporal lobe glioma.
We have reported the case of a young man who had the uncommon coexistence of two relatively common intracranial tumors--a pituitary adenoma and a temporal lobe glioma. The pituitary adenoma invaded nerve bundles in the left cavernous sinus, but did not extend into the left temporal lobe, where an anatomically separate oligoastrocytoma was diagnosed at autopsy. Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging may assist in the diagnosis of this and similar uncommon conditions.
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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140.
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D000238:Adenoma, Chromophobe / Q000473:pathology*; D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005910:Glioma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D015175:Prolactinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe