Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The introduction of imaging technologies into routine clinical practice has increased the pituitary incidentalomas cases detection by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. Identification of pituitary formations requires additional hormonal examination and dynamic MRI pituitary examination for differential diagnosis and treatment strategy for patients. An important clinical problem is to determine the malignancy, predictors of potential growth and hormonal a...

The introduction of the brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of into routine clinical practice has led to a significant increase of pituitary masses detection, including as incidental findings. An increase in the frequency of detection of pituitary gland formations entails a significant increase in costs for clinical and hormonal examination, MRI monitoring and dynamic observation by an endocrinologist. However, only a small number of identified formations require radical tr...