ea0031p263 | Pituitary | SFEBES2013
Koulouri Olympia
, Kandasamy Narayanan
, Moran Carla
, Chatterjee Krish
, Halsall David
, Cheow HK
, Antoun Nagui
, Hoole Andrew
, Burnet Neil
, Donnelly Neil
, Mannion Richard
, Pickard John
, Gurnell Mark
Although MRI remains the investigation of choice for pituitary imaging, it does not reliably identify all secretory microadenomas, and cannot always discriminate residual tumour from post-surgical change following hypophysectomy. We hypothesised that i) imaging with the PET ligand 11C-methionine, which is taken up at sites of peptide/protein synthesis, would permit more reliable identification of functioning pituitary adenoma, and ii) co-registration of PET–CT ...