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Case Report: Atypical presentation of non-functional gonadotropinoma

Gonadotropinoma is the most common non-functional pituitary adenoma comprising 10%–30% of all pituitary adenomas. They are benign slow-growing tumours originating from adenohypophysis and rarely become malignant. Its presentation can be atypical, such as visual disturbance, and most patients present...

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Autores principales: Oommen, Suresh, Rice, Sam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37691731
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.133438.2
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description Gonadotropinoma is the most common non-functional pituitary adenoma comprising 10%–30% of all pituitary adenomas. They are benign slow-growing tumours originating from adenohypophysis and rarely become malignant. Its presentation can be atypical, such as visual disturbance, and most patients presenting to an ophthalmologist for visual correction are eventually found to have a field defect. Here, we report a case of a 59-year-old patient who presented with a left-sided visual disturbance, which progressed over the years due to a left temporal hemianopia. The patient was referred to us by an ophthalmologist and was diagnosed with a giant non-functional gonadotropinoma. The patient was surgically treated. Postoperative follow-up magnetic resonance imaging after 3 months showed near complete resection of the tumour.
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spelling pubmed-104831752023-09-08 Case Report: Atypical presentation of non-functional gonadotropinoma Oommen, Suresh Rice, Sam F1000Res Case Report Gonadotropinoma is the most common non-functional pituitary adenoma comprising 10%–30% of all pituitary adenomas. They are benign slow-growing tumours originating from adenohypophysis and rarely become malignant. Its presentation can be atypical, such as visual disturbance, and most patients presenting to an ophthalmologist for visual correction are eventually found to have a field defect. Here, we report a case of a 59-year-old patient who presented with a left-sided visual disturbance, which progressed over the years due to a left temporal hemianopia. The patient was referred to us by an ophthalmologist and was diagnosed with a giant non-functional gonadotropinoma. The patient was surgically treated. Postoperative follow-up magnetic resonance imaging after 3 months showed near complete resection of the tumour. F1000 Research Limited 2023-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10483175/ /pubmed/37691731 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.133438.2 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Oommen S and Rice S https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37691731
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