CHSJ

Curr Health Sci J, vol. 35, no. 3, 2009

Direct and Indirect Signs of Imagistic Diagnosis in Prolactinomas

[Original paper]

S. BONDARI(1), D.M. ALBULESCU(2), A. 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 Craiovaova


Abstract:

Nowadays, imagistic methods constitute a real progress in pituitary adenoma diagnosis. Computer tomography is a valuable device in appreciating both the direct and indirect signs of the imagistic diagnosis of the sellar region pathology of pituitary adenoma type. Possibility for that bony structures frequently presented in the cases of the pituitary adenoma should be correctly evaluated constitutes an important favor of that method. Also, acquisitions in a coronal plane with reconstruction in a sagittal, axial and 3D planes give that imagistic method an important play as concerning a correct diagnosis working out with consequence at implications in the subsequent therapy. The present study show the computer tomographic aspects in the prolactin secreting pituitary adenomas.


Keywords: pituitary, adenoma, direct signs, indirect signs



Corresponding: Assistant Dr. Simona Bondari, , 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.35.03.06 - Download PDF
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