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Case Reports
. 1987;92(1):59-64.
doi: 10.3109/03009738709178678.

Transsphenoidal therapeutic puncture of a cystic pituitary adenoma

P O Lundberg, C Muhr, K Bergström, M Bergström, H Deuschl, P Enoksson, E Hagelquist, K A Thuomas, L Wide
Case Reports

Transsphenoidal therapeutic puncture of a cystic pituitary adenoma

P O Lundberg et al. Ups J Med Sci. 1987.

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  • Ups J Med Sci 1987;92(2):215

Abstract

Transsphenoidal diagnostic puncture of skull base tumours has been a routine procedure in Uppsala for a decade. Bromocriptine is the treatment of choice for patients with prolactin secreting pituitary adenomas. Here we report on a patient with a pituitary adenoma who instead developed an increase in tumour size after bromocriptine treatment. Magnetic resonance imaging showed the tumor to be cystic. A transsphenoidal puncture was used therapeutically instead of surgery with excellent result.

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