Decreased Vision and Junctional Scotoma from Pituicytoma

Pituicytomas are rare neoplasms of the sellar region. We report a case of vision loss and a junctional scotoma in a 43-year-old woman caused by compression of the optic chiasm by a pituitary tumor. The morphological and immunohistochemical characteristics of the tumor were consistent with the diagno...

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Autores principales: Huynh, Nancy, Stemmer-Rachamimov, Anat O., Swearingen, Brooke, Cestari, Dean M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2012
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Published online: May, 2012
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22740829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000339242
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author Huynh, Nancy
Stemmer-Rachamimov, Anat O.
Swearingen, Brooke
Cestari, Dean M.
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description Pituicytomas are rare neoplasms of the sellar region. We report a case of vision loss and a junctional scotoma in a 43-year-old woman caused by compression of the optic chiasm by a pituitary tumor. The morphological and immunohistochemical characteristics of the tumor were consistent with the diagnosis of pituicytoma. The tumor was debulked surgically, and the patient's vision improved.
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spelling pubmed-33832542012-06-27 Decreased Vision and Junctional Scotoma from Pituicytoma Huynh, Nancy Stemmer-Rachamimov, Anat O. Swearingen, Brooke Cestari, Dean M. Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: May, 2012 Pituicytomas are rare neoplasms of the sellar region. We report a case of vision loss and a junctional scotoma in a 43-year-old woman caused by compression of the optic chiasm by a pituitary tumor. The morphological and immunohistochemical characteristics of the tumor were consistent with the diagnosis of pituicytoma. The tumor was debulked surgically, and the patient's vision improved. S. Karger AG 2012-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3383254/ /pubmed/22740829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000339242 Text en Copyright © 2012 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
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title_full Decreased Vision and Junctional Scotoma from Pituicytoma
title_fullStr Decreased Vision and Junctional Scotoma from Pituicytoma
title_full_unstemmed Decreased Vision and Junctional Scotoma from Pituicytoma
title_short Decreased Vision and Junctional Scotoma from Pituicytoma
title_sort decreased vision and junctional scotoma from pituicytoma
topic Published online: May, 2012
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