Abstract Background: Prolactinomas are the most common functional pituitary adenomas. Treatment with dopamine agonists is considered as first-line therapy. Cystic prolactinoma a variant prolactinoma. . It was assumed that since cystic area does not contain receptors, prolactinomas would respond to medical treatment. However, in recent years, it has been shown can also be treated agonists, and t...

Hyperprolactinemia is a persistent excess of the blood serum prolactin. The syndrome contains various symptoms, most characteristic violation reproductive system. There are multiple endogenous and exogenous causes hyperprolactinemia. main treatment method dopamine agonist therapy, in case prolactinoma existence, surgical radiation methods can be applied. About 15% patients resistant to which de...

A 72-year-old female presented with episodes of epistaxis. Neuroimaging demonstrated a large prolactinoma totally enclosing a large intracavernous aneurysm of the internal carotid artery. Adjacent bony structures were eroded and destroyed by tumor invasion and extension. Rupture of the intratumoral aneurysm caused fatal epistaxis rather than subarachnoid hemorrhage before surgery. Intratumoral ...