Extensive sphenoid chordoma mimicking a prolactinoma

The chordoma is a benign cartilaginous tumor whose sphenoidale localization is exceptional. This tumor has considerable difficulties of both diagnosis and treatment. We report the observation of a Tunisian adult who presented features of hypopituitarism set wrongly on account of a prolactinoma.

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Autores principales: El Euch, Mounira, Hentati, Olfa, Mahfoudhi, Madiha, Bani, Wifak, Hamida, Fethi Ben, Jaziri, Fatima, Abdelghani, Khaoula Ben, Turki, Sami, Abdallah, Taieb Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558936
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.138.12897
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author El Euch, Mounira
Hentati, Olfa
Mahfoudhi, Madiha
Bani, Wifak
Hamida, Fethi Ben
Jaziri, Fatima
Abdelghani, Khaoula Ben
Turki, Sami
Abdallah, Taieb Ben
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Hentati, Olfa
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Bani, Wifak
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Jaziri, Fatima
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description The chordoma is a benign cartilaginous tumor whose sphenoidale localization is exceptional. This tumor has considerable difficulties of both diagnosis and treatment. We report the observation of a Tunisian adult who presented features of hypopituitarism set wrongly on account of a prolactinoma.
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spelling pubmed-67548282019-09-26 Extensive sphenoid chordoma mimicking a prolactinoma El Euch, Mounira Hentati, Olfa Mahfoudhi, Madiha Bani, Wifak Hamida, Fethi Ben Jaziri, Fatima Abdelghani, Khaoula Ben Turki, Sami Abdallah, Taieb Ben Pan Afr Med J Case Report The chordoma is a benign cartilaginous tumor whose sphenoidale localization is exceptional. This tumor has considerable difficulties of both diagnosis and treatment. We report the observation of a Tunisian adult who presented features of hypopituitarism set wrongly on account of a prolactinoma. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6754828/ /pubmed/31558936 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.138.12897 Text en © Mounira El Euch et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hentati, Olfa
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Hamida, Fethi Ben
Jaziri, Fatima
Abdelghani, Khaoula Ben
Turki, Sami
Abdallah, Taieb Ben
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558936
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.138.12897
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