ea0015p233 | Pituitary | SFEBES2008
O'Sullivan Eoin
, Woods Conor
, Glynn Nigel
, Behan LucyAnn
, Crowley Rachel
, Smith Diarmuid
, Agha Amar
Differentiation between non functioning pituitary macroadenomas (NFPA) and prolactinomas may be difficult as hyperprolactinaemia can also be present at diagnosis in NFPA cases due to pituitary stalk compression (disconnection hyperprolactinaemia). Some authors suggested that prolactin >2,000 mIU/l is almost diagnostic of a prolactinoma, while others use a higher cut-off of >5000 mIU/l. Our aim was to identify the level of prolactin above which a prolactinoma was more l...