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Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumor Diagnosis

Positron emission tomography/CT may be useful to detect tumors in patients with equivocal MRI results.

11C methionine positron emission tomography PET/CT can provide valuable diagnostic information when F-FDG PET/CT yields negative results, especially in patients with recurrent microadenomas 1).

Endocrine screening

Endocrine screening.

Magnetic resonance imaging for pituitary neuroendocrine tumor diagnosis

Magnetic resonance imaging for pituitary neuroendocrine tumor diagnosis.

Pituitary microadenoma diagnosis

see Pituitary microadenoma diagnosis

Pituitary macroadenoma diagnosis

see Pituitary macroadenoma diagnosis

1)
Feng Z, He D, Mao Z, Wang Z, Zhu Y, Zhang X, Wang H. Utility of 11C-Methionine and 18F-FDG PET/CT in Patients With Functioning pituitary neuroendocrine tumors. Clin Nucl Med. 2016 Mar;41(3):e130-4. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001085. PubMed PMID: 26646998.