Pituitary Imaging.

Barry D Pressman

Journal: Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America 2018;46(3):713-740

PMID: 28760235

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Abstract

Modern pituitary imaging is MRI. However, computed tomography (CT) still has limited usefulness. In addition, because CT offers much better bone detail and calcium detection, there are some cases in which such additional information is necessary. Before the advent of CT, plain radiography, pneumoencephalography, and angiography were used to diagnose pituitary masses. More recently, CT, and then especially MRI, made it possible to primarily delineate lesions within and around the pituitary gland rather than depend on secondary information that could only suggest their presence.

Address: Department of Imaging, S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center, Cedars-Sinai, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecl.2017.04.012

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MeSH Terms: Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Pituitary Diseases, Pituitary Gland, Tomography, X-Ray Computed