A 63-year-old man was referred to the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroendocrine & Pituitary Tumor Clinical Center for management of a pituitary macroadenoma.

MRIs are an effective diagnostic tool for pituitary tumors. Although MRI scans can miss very small tumors, newer machines are better equipped to detect them. Most pituitary tumors are noncancerous ...

Pituitary Macroadenoma. (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI; (Right) T1-weighted with gadolinium sagittal MRI. Note the large enhancing mass that fills the sella. This is ... By definition, pituitary ...

Pituitary Macroadenoma. (Left) T1-weighted sagittal MRI; (Middle) T1-weighted with gadolinium sagittal MRI; (Right) T1-weighted with gadolinium coronal MRI. Note the large enhancing mass in the region ...

October 27, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — A pituitary anomaly on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can predict which children with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) also have hypopituitarism, an ...