CHSJ

Curr Health Sci J, vol. 35, no. 1, 2009

Pituitary Macroadenomas - Imagistic Evaluation

[Original paper]

Simona Bondari(1), Dana-Maria Albulescu(2), Adriana Iliescu(1)


(1)Department of Radiology and Imagistic Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova;
(2)Department of Anatomy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova


Abstract:

As regarding the pituitary pathology, lesions of adenoma types are the most frequent; for many types are the most frequent; for many time diagnoses is complex, including the imagistic one. Pituitary lesions secreting or non-secreting macroadenomas have been characterized by a greater or smaller degree of invasivity. Those lesions extrasellar extension is well appreciated by imagistic methods giving minute information on the tumoral process ranging and on affecting the adjacent anatomical structures. In present paper suggests an imagistic aspects analysis of the macroadenomas extension, by computer tomography and magnetic resonance, each of the methods having its own specificity concerning the correct diagnosis of the pituitary pathology.


Keywords: pituitary, macroadenoma, imagistic methods



Corresponding: Assistant Simona Bondari MD, , Department of Radiology and Imagistic Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Street Petru Rares no. 2-4, 200 349, Craiova, Romania, phone/fax 0251-419400, E-mail simonabondari@yahoo.com


DOI 10.12865/CHSJ.35.01.05 - Download PDF
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