Now You See, Now You Don’t: A Case Of Spontaneous Regression of Pituitary Tumour

Spontaneous regression of pituitary tumours are rare and can be due to tumour ischaemia, pituitary apoplexy, or lymphocytic hypophysitis. We report a case of a 32-year-old female, who presented with symptoms and signs of extrasellar pituitary enlargement and hypothyroidism. MRI revealed a pituitary...

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Autores principales: Jaafar, Ainul Syahril, Mohd shokri, Siti salwa, Paramasvaran, Sanmugarajah, Palaniandy, Kamalanathan, Fadzil, Farizal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32802610
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9174
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author Jaafar, Ainul Syahril
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Paramasvaran, Sanmugarajah
Palaniandy, Kamalanathan
Fadzil, Farizal
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description Spontaneous regression of pituitary tumours are rare and can be due to tumour ischaemia, pituitary apoplexy, or lymphocytic hypophysitis. We report a case of a 32-year-old female, who presented with symptoms and signs of extrasellar pituitary enlargement and hypothyroidism. MRI revealed a pituitary mass that spontaneously regressed after a month, with complete resolution of symptoms. Not all pituitary tumours require surgical intervention especially in the case of autoimmune lymphocytic hypophysitis.
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spelling pubmed-74258212020-08-14 Now You See, Now You Don’t: A Case Of Spontaneous Regression of Pituitary Tumour Jaafar, Ainul Syahril Mohd shokri, Siti salwa Paramasvaran, Sanmugarajah Palaniandy, Kamalanathan Fadzil, Farizal Cureus Radiology Spontaneous regression of pituitary tumours are rare and can be due to tumour ischaemia, pituitary apoplexy, or lymphocytic hypophysitis. We report a case of a 32-year-old female, who presented with symptoms and signs of extrasellar pituitary enlargement and hypothyroidism. MRI revealed a pituitary mass that spontaneously regressed after a month, with complete resolution of symptoms. Not all pituitary tumours require surgical intervention especially in the case of autoimmune lymphocytic hypophysitis. Cureus 2020-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7425821/ /pubmed/32802610 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9174 Text en Copyright © 2020, Jaafar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Jaafar, Ainul Syahril
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Now You See, Now You Don’t: A Case Of Spontaneous Regression of Pituitary Tumour
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title_short Now You See, Now You Don’t: A Case Of Spontaneous Regression of Pituitary Tumour
title_sort now you see, now you don’t: a case of spontaneous regression of pituitary tumour
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425821/
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