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
Magnetic resonance imaging for pituitary neuroendocrine tumor diagnosis
Pituitary microadenoma diagnosis
Pituitary macroadenoma diagnosis
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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
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