Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Pituitary Stalk Lesions

  • Metastases:
  • Sarcoid/Tuberculosis/Lymphoma:
  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis: May have absence of the posterior pituitary bright spot.
  • Pituicytoma: Also known as choristoma.
  • Germinoma:
Posted by Behrang Amini, MD/PhD at 4:43 AM
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 7, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    Is there a way to distinguish LCH from germinoma based purely on MRI when all other tests have come up negative? Patient unwilling to biopsy.

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