Cystic giant prolactinoma in childhood.
In childhood and adolescence, pituitary adenomas are rare and half are prolactinomas. However, cystic giant prolactinoma in prepuberty is extremely rare. In this report, we present a 10-year-old boy with a cystic giant prolactinoma who was treated with two-stage surgery as the tumor was dumbbell shaped. To our knowledge, this is the second reported case of a cystic giant prolactinoma in a prepubertal child.
Neurosurgery Clinic, Ministry of Health Okmeydani Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. drcemdinc@yahoo.com
Cem
C
Dinc
Kerem
K
Bikmaz
A Celal
AC
Iplikcioglu
Serkan
S
Kosdere
Ismail
I
Latifaci
D002648:Child; D003560:Cysts; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011388:Prolactin / Q000378:metabolism; D015175:Prolactinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D011388:Prolactin