Neuroimaging findings in a suprasellar granular cell tumor

J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2003 Jan-Feb;27(1):26-9. doi: 10.1097/00004728-200301000-00005.

Abstract

A 27-year-old woman presented with a history of amenorrhea, visual disturbance, and diabetes insipidus. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a large enhancing suprasellar mass with associated edema involving the left striatum. The lesion was hypometabolic on fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography. At surgery, a subtotal resection of a vascular tumor that appeared to arise from the posterior pituitary and hypothalamus was carried out. Pathologic examination revealed a granular cell tumor. We report the preoperative neuroimaging findings in this rare posterior pituitary stalk tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Granular Cell Tumor / diagnosis*
  • Granular Cell Tumor / diagnostic imaging
  • Granular Cell Tumor / pathology
  • Humans
  • Hypothalamic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Hypothalamic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Hypothalamic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Pituitary Gland, Posterior*
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / pathology
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18