A 46-year-old woman with a history of personality change, headache, and olfactory hallucination
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The patient was a 46-year-old woman, who was visited in our hospital because of progressive personality change, visual field defect, severe headache, and olfactory hallucination for the previous 3 months. On neurological examination, she had hyposmia and bitemporal hemianopia. Mini-mental status examination score was 28 out of 30. Furthermore, he had bilateral papilledema. Other neurological examination was normal. The brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is presented in figure 1: 1. What abnormalities are seen on brain MRI? 2. What are the best differential diagnoses? 3. What is the most probable diagnosis? 4. What is the best treatment for this patient? 5. What are the possible complications of treatment? 6. What are the differential diagnoses of suprasellar mass?
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