Full Description
This book describes the challenges occurring during a pituitary examination and provides key pieces for diagnosis. It takes into account unusual issues encountered when reading a pituitary MRI.
Each chapter covers the common traps faced during the interpretation of pituitary MRI, for instance, in the presence of pituitary adenomas, Rathke cleft cysts, craniopharyngiomas, and many other pathological conditions, before offering solutions to come to the correct diagnosis.
This concise practical guide offers helpful information for radiologists and neurosurgeons, but the book will also interest endocrinologists and internists.
Contents
Chapter 1 . The (My) Golden Rules.- Chapter 2. T2W MRI, the Master Sequence.- Chapter 3. Axial T1W, an Underused Sequence .- Chapter 4 . A Look on Sphenoid Sinus.- Chapter 5 . The Poorly Known Posterior Lobe.- Chapter 6 . The Pituitary Stalk and the Infundibular Unidentified Object.- Chapter 7 . An Overlooked Venous Sinus.- Chapter 8 . The Small Sella.- Chapter 9 . The Myth of Dynamic MRI.- Chapter 10 . Pitfalls and Artifacts.- Chapter 11 . In Young Children.- Chapter 12 . Hyperprolactinemia in Woman.- Chapter 13 . Prolactinoma in Man.- Chapter 14 . Acromegales and Giants.- Chapter 15 . Syndromic and Familial Acromegaly.- Chapter 16. Cushing: the Grail of the Radiologist.- Chapter 17 . Silent and Unusual Pituitary Adenomas.- Chapter 18 . Is Cavernous Sinus Invaded?.- Chapter 19 . Aggressive or Invasive PitNET?.- Chapter 20 . Apoplexy or Hemorrhage?.- Chapter 21 . Hyperplasia or Pseudohyperplasia?.- Chapter 22 . Pregnancy and Pituitary.- Chapter 23 . Intrasellar Rathke Cleft Cysts.- Chapter 24 . Rathke Cleft Cysts or PitNET?.- Chapter 25. Complicated Rathke Cleft Cysts.- Chapter 26 . Non Rathke Cleft Cysts.- Chapter 27 . Pituitary Stalk Cysts.- Chapter 28 . Craniopharyngiomas.- Chapter 29. Germinomas and other Bad Tumors.- Chapter 30. The Empty Sella is not Empty.- Chapter 31. Hypophysitis or PitNET?.- Chapter 32. Meningioma or PitNET?.- Chapter 33. The Jewel Box.- Chapter 34. Collision Lesions.- Chapter 35. A Spiny Diagnosis.- Chapter 36. After Surgery.- Chapter 37. Ectopic Vasopressin Storage.- Chapter 38. Bye Bye Diabetes Insipidus.- Chapter 39. What is Bright on T1?.- Chapter 40. What is Dark on T2?.- Chapter 41. Do you Have FLAIR?.- Chapter 42. Incidentalomas.
