ArticlePituitary2018
Management of pituicytomas: a multicenter series of eight cases.
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- Primary tumors of the posterior pituitary: A systematic review.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2019Pooled it
- Preoperative Prediction of Non-functional Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumors and Posterior Pituitary Tumors Based on MRI Radiomic Features.Journal of imaging informatics in medicine · 2026Article
- Histopathological Types, Clinical Presentation, Imaging Studies, Treatment Strategies, and Prognosis of Posterior Pituitary Tumors: An Updated Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Posterior transpetrosal approach to a suprasellar retroinfundibular pituicytoma: A case report and comprehensive literature review.Brain & spine · 2025Article
- Oncocytic pituicytoma in a patient with Cushing's disease: a case report and narrative literature review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Intraventricular pituicytoma: illustrative case.Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons · 2024Article
- Synchronous Posterior and Anterior Pituitary Tumors: A Case Report of a Hypothetic Paracrine Relationship.Asian journal of neurosurgery · 2023Article
- Surgical management of pituicytomas: a single-center case series.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2023Article
- Pituicytoma Associated with Suspected Cushing's Disease: Two Case Reports and a Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Epidemiology of common and uncommon adult pituitary tumors in the U.S. according to the 2017 World Health Organization classification.Pituitary · 2022Article
- Treatment and prognostic factors of pituicytoma: a single-center experience and comprehensive literature review.Pituitary · 2021Review
- Posterior pituitary tumours: patient outcomes and determinants of disease recurrence or persistence.Endocrine connections · 2021Article
- Review
- Histologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular features of pituicytomas and atypical pituicytomas.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposePituicytomas and spindle cell oncocytomas (SCOs) are two rare neoplasms of the sellar and suprasellar region, known to be challenging as they are extremely vascular and almost always misdiagnosed, altering our surgical planning and the patients' outcomes. Also we argue that recent update concerning the pathology findings of these tumors should be more widely generalized to our practice.
methodsThis is a retrospective multicenter study, reporting the clinical manifestations, radiological characteristics, histopathological features, treatment strategies and long-term outcomes of patients who have been treated for a Pituicytoma at various institutions in Paris, France over the past 10 years. In addition, we compared our results to the world literature in order to identify similarities concerning the radiographic diagnosis and the treatment strategies of these tumors.
resultsEight patients were operated on in four different hospitals. Misdiagnosis was constant before surgery, pituitary adenoma or craniopharyngioma being suspected. During surgery (transsphenoidal approach: six cases, transcranial approach: two cases) unusual tumors were noted, with important bleeding in most cases. Complete resection could be obtained in five patients. Pathological diagnosis was confirmed in all cases. During the follow up two recurrences occurred. One was subsequently treated with radiotherapy, the other underwent a second surgery.
conclusionRecent updates concerning the histological diagnosis of pituicytomas should be generalized to our practice in order to provide a better understanding of this rare pathology and its natural course.
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