Spontaneous regression of a pituitary cyst.
We present a pituitary cyst discovered on MRI in an amenorrheic patient that regressed over months. Although the precise etiology of the cyst is unproven, documentation of pituitary cyst regression has not to our knowledge been described previously.
Simmons
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Department of Radiology, St. Marys Medical Center, Abercrombie Radiological Consultants, Inc., Knoxville, TN 37917, USA.
Simmons
L A
LA
D000293:Adolescent; D003397:Craniopharyngioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous