Suprasellar granular cell tumor

Neurosurgery. 1992 Oct;31(4):751-4; discussion 754. doi: 10.1227/00006123-199210000-00021.

Abstract

A case of a suprasellar granular cell tumor, approximately 1.5 cm in diameter, in a 68-year-old woman is described. Diagnosis was established postoperatively by histopathological examination of the tumor tissue. The preoperative computed tomographic scan revealed a slightly hyperdense suprasellar mass with strong contrast enhancement. There was no evidence of calcification. The T1-weighted image on magnetic resonance imaging scan showed an isointense tumor with non-homogeneous enhancement after intravenous gadolinium diethylene-triamine-pentaacetic acid. In the proton-weighted image, the suprasellar mass presented a non-homogeneously enhanced signal. A non-homogeneous signal reduction was seen in the T2-weighted image.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cytoplasmic Granules / ultrastructure
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Meninges / pathology
  • Meningioma / diagnosis
  • Meningioma / pathology
  • Meningioma / surgery*
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Microsurgery
  • Pituitary Gland / pathology
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / pathology
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / surgery*