Endocrine Abstracts

Prolactinoma is the most common cause of chronic hyperprolactinemi and drugs that rise serum prolactin levels have been ruled out. Altough almost all of them arise within the sella turcica, there are some rare cases in which prolactinoma is located outside the intrasellar region, so it is defined as ectopic prolactinoma. Neuroleptics (e.g., haloperidol, chlorpromazine, risperidone.) can elevate serum PRL to levels that usually are detected with prolactinomas. We report a case ...