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- Title
MRI of ectopic posterior pituitary bright spot with large adenomas: appearances and relationship to transient postoperative diabetes insipidus.
- Authors
Saeki, N.; Tokunaga, H.; Wagai, N.; Sunami, K.; Murai, H.; Kubota, M.; Tatsuno, I.; Saito, Y.; Yamaura, A.
- Abstract
MRI of large pituitary adenomas has revealed that a posterior pituitary bright spot (PPBS), comprising ADH-containing neurosecretory granules, is commonly ectopic before surgery and attached to the tip of the pituitary stalk late after surgery. Although the PPBS indicates functional integrity of the posterior lobe, transient diabetes insipidus (DI), caused by deficiency of ADH, is frequent early after surgery. We attempted to clarify how the shape, signal intensity and site of the PPBS before surgery are related to transient DI in the early postoperative period. We carried out MRI on 15 patients with a large adenoma and an ectopic PPBS before surgery and then within 1 week (early), 1–2 months (intermediate) and 6 or more months (late) after the operation. There were nine who had transient DI, which subsided by the intermediate study; none had permanent DI. Regardless of transient DI, the PPBS was visible, and its signal intensity was similar, on all postoperative studies. Although 11 did not change in shape, four showed a remarkable change from a flat shape before surgery to a rounded one postoperatively. On the intermediate MRI, the PPBS had descended to the level of the diaphragma as mass effect disappeared.
- Subjects
MEDICAL imaging systems; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; ADENOMA; TUMORS; ENDOCRINE diseases; PREOPERATIVE care
- Publication
Neuroradiology, 2003, Vol 45, Issue 10, p713
- ISSN
0028-3940
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00234-003-1018-9