Radiosurgery for Pituitary Metastases

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 112-116

  Iwai, Yoshiyasu ^a   Yamanaka, Kazuhiro ^a   Honda, Yuji ^a   Matsusaka, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma knife; Metastasis; Pituitary gland; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 1842633343     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.112     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Branch CL Jr, Laws ER Jr: Metastatic tumors of the sella turcica masquerading as primary pituitary tumors. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 65: 469-474, 1987
2. Buonaguidi R, Ferdeghini M, Faggionato F, Tusini G: Intrasellar metastasis mimicking a pituitary adenoma. Surg Neurol 20: 373-378, 1983
3. Bynke O, Ottosson AM: Is metastatic breast carcinoma in the pituitary a concealed manifestation? Lancet 2: 1336-1337, 1982
4. Cox EV III: Chiasmal compression from metastatic cancer to the pituitary gland. Surg Neurol 11: 49-50, 1979
5. Feigl GC, Bonelli CM, Berghold A, Mokry M: Effects of gamma knife radiosurgery of pituitary adenomas on pituitary function. J Neurosurg 97 (5 Suppl): 415-421, 2002
6. Gurling KJ, Scott GBD, Baron DN: Metastases in pituitary tissue removed at hypophysectomy in women with mammary carcinoma. Br J Cancer 11: 519-523, 1957
7. Houck WA, Olson KB, Horton J: Clinical features of tumor metastases to the pituitary, Cancer 26: 656-659, 1970
8. Huang MC, Lee LS, Ho DMT, Cheng H, Chung WY, Huang CI, Hsiano CY, Pan DHC: A metastatic pituitary carcinoid tumor successfully treated with gamma knife radiosurgery. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi (Taipei) 64: 414-418, 2001
9. Iwai Y, Yamanaka K: Gamma knife radiosurgery for skull base metastasis and invasion. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 72 (Suppl 1): 81-87, 1999
10. Juneau P, Schoene WC, Black P: Malignant tumors in the pituitary gland. Arch Neurol 49: 555-558, 1992
11. Kattah JC, Silgals RM, Manz H, Toro JG, Dritscilo A, Smith FP: Presentation and management of parasellar and suprasellar metastatic mass lesions. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 48: 44-49, 1985
12. Kimmel DW, O'Neill BP: Systemic cancer presenting as diabetes insipidus: Clinical and radiological features of 11 patients with a review of metastatic-induced diabetes insipidus. Cancer 52: 2355-2358, 1983
13. Kistler M, Pribram HW: Metastatic disease of the sella turcica. AJR Am J Roentgenol 123: 13-21, 1975
14. Kondziolka D, Patel A, Lunsford LD, Kassam A, Flickinger JC: Stereotactic radiosurgery plus whole brain radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone for patients with multiple metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 45: 427-434, 1999
15. Kovacs K: Metastatic cancer of the pituitary gland. Oncology 27: 533-542, 1973
16. Leber KA, Berglöff J, Pendl G: Dose-response tolerance of the visual pathways and cranial nerves of the cavernous sinus to stereotactic radiosurgery. J Neurosurg 88: 43-50, 1998
17. Max MB, Deck MDF, Rottenberg DA: Pituitary metastasis: incidence in cancer patients and clinical differentiation from pituitary adenoma. Neurology 31:998-1002, 1981
18. Mayr NA, Yuh WTC, Muhonen MG, Koci TM, Tali ET, Nguyen HD, Bergman RA, Jinkins JR: Pituitary metastases: MR findings. J Comput Assist Tomogr 17: 432-437, 1993
19. McCormik PC, Post KD, Kandji AD, Hays AP: Metastatic carcinoma to the pituitary gland. Br J Neurosurg 3: 71-80, 1989
20. Morita A, Meyer FB, Laws ER Jr: Symptomatic pituitary metastases. J Neurosurg 89: 69-73, 1998
21. Nelson PB, Robinson AG, Martinez AJ: Metastatic tumor of the pituitary gland. Neurosurgery 21: 941-943, 1987
22. Roessmann U, Kaufman B, Friede RL: Metastatic lesions in the sella turcica and pituitary gland. Cancer 25: 478-480, 1970
23. Schubinger O, Haller D: Metastases to the pituitary-hypothalamic axis. Neuroradiology 34: 131-134, 1992
24. Sheehan JP, Kondziolka D, Flickinger J, Lunsford LD: Radiosurgery for residual or recurrent nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma. J Neurosurg 97 (5 Suppl): 408-414, 2002
25. Sneed PK, Suh JH, Goetsch SJ, Sanghavi SN, Chappell R, Buatti JM, Regine WF, Weltman E, King VJ, Breneman JC, Sperduto PW, Mehta MP: A multi-institute review of radiosurgery alone vs radiosurgery with whole brain radiotherapy as the initial management of brain metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 53: 519-526, 2002
26. Teears RJ, Silverman EM: Clinicopathologic review of 88 cases of carcinoma metastatic to the pituitary gland. Cancer 36: 216-220, 1975
27. Uzal MC, Kocak Z, Doganay L, Tokatli F, Caloglu M, Kilincer C: Pituitary metastasis mimicking a macroadenoma from carcinoma of the larynx: a case report. Tumori 87: 451-454, 2001
28. Yamanaka K: Prognostic factors for brain metastasis from lung cancer after gamma knife radiosurgery. Osaka City Med J 45: 45-59, 1999