Acromegaly associated with mixed pituitary adenoma-gangliocytoma and rathke's cleft cyst
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Acromegaly associated with mixed pituitary adenoma-gangliocytoma and Rathke's cleft cyst.
Gangliocytoma of the pituitary gland is a rare lesion that often occurs in combination with pituitary adenomas and the exact origin is the subject of discussion. We report a rare case of an intrasellar mass of combined gangliocytoma/ pituitary adenoma coexistent with Rathke's cleft cyst. A 50-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with headache, mild acromegaly, and bitemporal hemianopsia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Neurosurgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1019-5149
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.jtn.5241-11.1