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ReviewPituitary2012

Bronchial carcinoid tumors metastatic to the sella turcica and review of the literature.

Olga Moshkin, Fabio Rotondo, Bernd W Scheithauer, Mark Soares, Claire Coire, Harley S Smyth, Miklos Goth, Eva Horvath, Kalman Kovacs

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Review in Pituitary, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  5. 14th EUNOS Congress: PORTO, PORTUGAL, 16-19 JUNE 2019.Neuro-ophthalmology (Aeolus Press) · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Olga MoshkinDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, 1 Hospital Drive, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7C6, Canada. omoshkin@gmail.com
Fabio Rotondo
Bernd W Scheithauer
Mark Soares
Claire Coire
Harley S Smyth
Miklos Goth
Eva Horvath
Kalman Kovacs
St. Michael's Hospital · CATrillium Health Centre · CAMayo Clinic in Arizona · USPeterborough City Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We review here the literature on neuroendocrine neoplasms metastatic to the pituitary and present an example of the disease. Metastasis of bronchial carcinoid tumors to the sellar region are rare. Herein, we describe the case of a 63-year-old woman who presented with constant cough and headaches. She had previously been operated for carcinoid tumor of the lung. During the preoperative investigation, a CT scan of the head revealed a sellar mass. Six months after a left lower lobectomy, the sellar lesion was removed by transsphenoidal surgery. The two tumors were evaluated by histology, immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. Both showed identical morphologic features, those of carcinoid tumor. Immunohistochemistry revealed immunoreactivity for the endocrine markers, synaptophysin and chromogranin, as well as CD-56, serotonin, bombesin and vascular endothelial growth factor. The sellar neoplasm showed nuclear immunopositivity for thyroid transcription factor-1, supporting the diagnosis of a metastatic bronchial carcinoid tumor. In conclusion, this is the first report of a serotonin- and bombesin-immunopositive atypical bronchial carcinoid tumor metastatic to the sella.

Indexed as

Bronchial NeoplasmsCarcinoid TumorFemaleHumansMiddle AgedPituitary NeoplasmsSella Turcica

Identifiers

PMID22485018
OpenAlexW1987375369

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