Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Patients with acromegaly without detectable pituitary adenoma on conventional MRI are often excluded from adenomectomy due to inherent challenges of precise surgical planning, significantly limiting both their therapeutic options and chances of curation. Previous research showed that O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine ([18F]FET) PET-MRI is an accurate diagnostic tool to detect small functional pituitary adenomas (1). The present study aims to investigate the diagnos...