ArticleWorld journal of surgical oncology2012
Breast cancer metastatic to the pituitary gland: a case report.
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- Neuro-ophthalmological findings of pituitary metastasis: Case series from a single center and review of the literature.Heliyon · 2024Review
- A case of pituitary metastasis discovered when diabetes insipidus developed in a patient 20 years after breast cancer treatment.Radiology case reports · 2023Article
- Metastatic breast cancer masquerading as a pituitary macroadenoma: A case report.SAGE open medical case reports · 2022Article
- Early and isolated breast cancer metastasis to the pituitary: A case report and systematic review.Surgical neurology international · 2022Article
- Pituitary metastasis of a breast ductal adenocarcinoma.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2020Article
- Case Report of a Pituitary Metastasis from Lung Adenocarcinoma Masquerading as Pituitary Adenoma.Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies · 2020Article
- Case Report: Metachronous Quadruple Cancers Including Breast Cancer and Triple Genital Cancer.International journal of general medicine · 2020Article
- Rare sites of breast cancer metastasis: a review.Translational cancer research · 2019Review
- Pituitary metastasis of breast cancer mimicking IgG4-related hypophysitis.eNeurologicalSci · 2019Article
- Infundibulo-hypophysitis-like radiological image in a patient with pituitary infiltration of a diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism case reports · 2016Article
- Pituitary metastasis: is there still a place for neurosurgical treatment?Journal of neuro-oncology · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundMetastases to the pituitary gland are rare events, and usually indicate widespread malignant disease. The lung and the breast are the most common sites of primary tumors that metastasize to the pituitary gland.Metastases are more frequent in older patients and the most common symptoms at presentation are diabetes insipidus and visual alterations. CASE PRESENTATION: 72-year-old white woman was treated for a breast carcinoma with right superoexternal quadrantectomy, radiotherapy, and hormone therapy. Twelve years later, the patient presented with bone pain, bilateral progressive visual decline, and onset of hypopituitarism. A diagnosis of secondary bone involvement and pituitary metastasis was made.
conclusionThis was an unusual disease course, and stresses the importance of intensive follow-up in patients with breast cancer even many years after the initial diagnosis This case emphasizes that diagnosis can be difficult and controversial when relapse occurs at uncommon sites.
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