adenoma/seizures

A 59-year-old diabetic patient was admitted with loss of consciousness and convulsions. Hypercalcaemia and hypoglycaemia were discovered. Computed tomographic and technetium scans revealed a retrosternal paramedian nodule. Radical thymectomy was performed by median sternotomy. Diagnosis of

Giant pituitary adenomas are clinically nonfunctioning adenomas, and the clinical presentation is usually secondary to compression of the neighboring structures. Visual impairment and visual field defect are the most common preoperative symptoms, followed by headache. Generalized seizures may occur

A case of hypophyseal adenoma with epileptic seizures in a man aged 61 years is reported. The generalized seizures developed 21 years earlier, and partial complex seizures 2 years before the diagnosis of adenoma. The patient had two sons, one died of suprasellar tumour, the other one has generalized

BACKGROUND Epilepsy is a heterogeneous condition with numerous etiologies. Pituitary tumors are rarely responsible for generalized convulsions except when they are very large. Apart from anecdotic cases, only one study concerning epilepsy frequency in male macroprolactinomas is available in Medline.

A patient with a benign chromophobe adenoma, who had incomplete surgical removal followed by radiotherapy, continued to have epileptic seizures up to two or three times a day. She was studied with positron emission tomography using 18F-2-deoxyglucose (FDG). This technique showed a high level of

Seizures have been reported as a late complication of medically treated prolactin-producing macroadenomas with lateral extension. Nine prolactin-producing macroadenomas with lateral extension to the cavernous sinus were treated with bromocriptine alone. In all cases, rapid decrease of serum

BACKGROUND Radiation therapy is a potentially curative treatment for corticotroph adenomas refractory to surgery. Protons have an advantage over photons (x-rays) by depositing energy at the target with no exit dose, providing a lower dose to adjacent normal tissues. Until recently, proton

Severe hyponatremia has been described after elective surgery with subsequent permanent brain damage. Other authors, however, have noted that morbidity and mortality rates of severe hyponatremia have been greatly overestimated. We retrospectively examined 19 patients (8 male, 11 female) who

An association between oxcarbazepine therapy and hepatic adenoma (HA) has been documented in animal models but not observed in humans. The authors report a case of a 16-year-old girl on oxcarbazepine therapy for seizure disorder who presented with a giant HA. Pathology of the HA was notable for

Visual hallucinations were the presenting symptom in three patients with pituitary adenoma. One patient reported only simple unformed hallucinations, which are a well-documented phenomenon occurring in lesions compressing the optic nerves and chiasm. The other two patients, however, experienced

Pituitary adenomas encompass the endocrine, symptomatic or functionally active and the non-functional, null cell or functionally inactive. According to their sizes, they can be very small, also called microadenomas, or they can be very large, "invasive", or macroadenomas usually without clinical