Harzallah L, Migaw H, Harzallah F, Kraiem Ch
Department of Medical Imaging, Farhat Hached Hospital, Sousse 4000, Tunisie.
Ann Endocrinol (Paris). 2005 Apr;66(2 Pt 1):117-20. doi: 10.1016/s0003-4266(05)81708-1.
Metastatic tumors of the pituitary gland are not commonly diagnosed during life in cancer patients. The occurrence of symptomatic lesions is also very unusual and difficult to differentiate clinically and radiologically from pituitary adenomas. We report a case of pituitary metastasis which was the prime manifestation of a small cell lung carcinoma in a 40-year-old man. This cancer was revealed by diabetes insipidus and a hypopituitarism.
垂体转移瘤在癌症患者生前并不常被诊断出来。有症状的病变也非常罕见，在临床和影像学上很难与垂体腺瘤区分开来。我们报告一例垂体转移瘤病例，该病例是一名40岁男性小细胞肺癌的主要表现。该癌症表现为尿崩症和垂体功能减退。
