Regression of pituitary macroadenoma after pituitary apoplexy: CT and MR studies.
We present a case of a patient with apoplexy due to infarction of a large pituitary macroadenoma. Conservative treatment with steroids resulted in reversal of symptoms and the adenoma involuted. This suggests that medical management may be sufficient therapy in some patients with this complication.
Armstrong
M R
MR
Department of Radiology, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Douek
M
M
Schellinger
D
D
Patronas
N J
NJ
D000236:Adenoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D000368:Aged; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D010899:Pituitary Apoplexy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D003907:Dexamethasone