Pituitary Neoplasms

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 1 + 1 not equal to 2. 
  • A case study comparing the relative benefit of optimizing beam weights, wedge angles, beam orientations and tomotherapy in stereotactic radiotherapy of the brain. 
  • A morphological analysis endocrine tumour genesis in pancreas and anterior pituitary of AVP/SV40 transgenic mice. 
  • Aberrant alternative splicing of thyroid hormone receptor in a TSH-secreting pituitary tumor is a mechanism for hormone resistance. 
  • Acromegaly and Cushing's syndrome associated with a foregut carcinoid tumor. 
  • Atypical antipsychotics and pituitary neoplasms in the WHO database. 
  • Atypical antipsychotics and pituitary tumors: a pharmacovigilance study. 
  • Atypical pituitary adenoma: a clinicopathologic case series. 
  • Cerebellopontine angle craniopharyngioma: case report and literature review. 
  • Clinical problem solving: monster on the hook--case problems in neurosurgery. 
  • Constrained customization of non-coplanar beam orientations in radiotherapy of brain tumours. 
  • Conventional external beam radiotherapy for central nervous system malignancies. 
  • Cushing's disease caused by an ectopic pituitary adenoma within the sphenoid sinus. 
  • Cushing's disease. A review. 
  • December 1998--16 year old female with headaches, lethargy and a sellar/suprasellar mass. 
  • Descriptive epidemiology of pituitary tumors in the United States, 2004-2009. 
  • Different secretory pathways of renin from mouse cells transfected with the human renin gene. 
  • Disparities in care. 
  • Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Resection of Giant Craniopharyngioma in a Toddler-Multimodal Presurgical Planning, Surgical Technique, and Management of Complications: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. 
  • Endoscopic pedicled nasoseptal flap reconstruction for pediatric skull base defects. 
  • Expression of CDK4 or CDK2 in mouse oral cavity is retained in adult pituitary with distinct effects on tumorigenesis. 
  • Frontal dermoid cyst coexisting with suprasellar craniopharyngioma: a spectrum of ectodermally derived epithelial-lined cystic lesions? 
  • Gamma Knife radiosurgery as a primary surgical treatment for hypersecreting pituitary adenomas. 
  • Ganglion cell-containing tumors of the pituitary gland. 
  • Genetic mosaics reveal both cell-autonomous and cell-nonautonomous function of murine p27Kip1. 
  • Germline and somatic thyroid hormone receptor mutations in man. 
  • Hyponatremia in the neurosurgical patient: diagnosis and management. 
  • INTRACRANIAL TUMORS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. A CLINICAL STUDY OF TWENTY CASES. 
  • Immunohistochemical expression of retinoid X receptor isoforms in human pituitaries and pituitary adenomas. 
  • Increased expression of programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) in human pituitary tumors. 
  • Index of suspicion. 
  • Intra-operative MR guidance during trans-sphenoidal pituitary resection: preliminary results. 
  • Isolated, giant cerebellopontine angle craniopharyngioma in a patient with Gardner syndrome: case report. 
  • Large pituitary gland with an expanding lesion in the context of neurofibromatosis 1. 
  • Late recurrences of Cushing's disease after initial successful transsphenoidal surgery. 
  • Letter: Radiation-Induced Malignant Transformation of Craniopharyngiomas. 
  • Liver metastases from pituitary carcinomas mimicking visceral well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors: a series of four cases. 
  • Lymphoma of the pituitary gland: an unusual presentation of central nervous system lymphoma in AIDS. 
  • MGMT immunoexpression in silent subtype 3 pituitary adenomas: possible therapeutic implications. 
  • MGMT immunoexpression predicts responsiveness of pituitary tumors to temozolomide therapy. 
  • Methylation patterns in cell-free plasma DNA reflect removal of the primary tumor and drug treatment of breast cancer patients. 
  • Mice transgenic for a vasopressin-SV40 hybrid oncogene develop tumors of the endocrine pancreas and the anterior pituitary. A possible model for human multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1. 
  • Molecular Analyses Reveal Inflammatory Mediators in the Solid Component and Cyst Fluid of Human Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma. 
  • Morphology predicts oncology: a commentary on Vezina and Sutton's article, "Prolactin-secreting pituitary microadenomas: roentgenologic diagnosis". 
  • Negative control elements and cAMP responsive sequences in the tissue-specific expression of mouse renin genes. 
  • Normal menstruation and pregnancy in a patient with Nelson's syndrome. 
  • Pathologic quiz case: pituitary mass in a 48-year-old woman. 
  • Pituitary adenoma presenting as facial pain: report of two cases and review of the literature. 
  • Pituitary adenomas: the effect of gamma knife radiosurgery on tumor growth and endocrinopathies. 
  • Pituitary microadenoma and primary lymphoma of brain associated with hypothalamic invasion. 
  • Pituitary oncocytomas: clinical features, characteristics in cell culture, and treatment recommendations. 
  • Pituitary thyrotoxicosis presenting as abnormal thyroid function testing during pregnancy: a case report. 
  • Recurrent blepharoptosis secondary to a pituitary tumor. 
  • Retinal vascular changes in retrograde optic atrophy. 
  • Scanning laser polarimetry with enhanced corneal compensation for detection of axonal loss in band atrophy of the optic nerve. 
  • Short chain fatty acids increase prolactin and growth hormone production and alter cell morphology in the GH3 strain of rat pituitary cells. 
  • Single- and Multi-Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery Dose Tolerances of the Optic Pathways. 
  • Somatic mutation of TRbeta can cause a defect in negative regulation of TSH in a TSH-secreting pituitary tumor. 
  • TBR-760, a Dopamine-Somatostatin Compound, Arrests Growth of Aggressive Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas in Mice. 
  • Targeting PD-L1 Initiates Effective Antitumor Immunity in a Murine Model of Cushing Disease. 
  • The assessment of pituitary function. 
  • The genome-wide mutational landscape of pituitary adenomas. 
  • Thymosin fraction 5 inhibits the proliferation of the rat neuroendocrine MMQ pituitary adenoma and C6 glioma cell lines in vitro. 
  • Transcriptional analyses of adult and pediatric adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma reveals similar expression signatures regarding potential therapeutic targets. 
  • Transient hypoadrenalism after transsphenoidal pituitary surgery for Cushing's disease may not predict long-term cure. 
  • Transnasal Transsphenoidal Elevation of Optic Chiasm in Secondary Empty Sella Syndrome Following Prolactinoma Treatment. 
  • Two Extraordinary Sellar Neuronal Tumors: Literature Review and Comparison of Clinicopathologic Features. 
  • Widely metastatic atypical pituitary adenoma with mTOR pathway STK11(F298L) mutation treated with everolimus therapy. 
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  Keywords of People

  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Muh, Carrie Rebecca, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery