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Sellar and supra-sellar glioblastoma masquerading as a pituitary macroadenoma

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A few number of suprasellar gliomas have been reported thus far of which, some of them developed several years after radiation therapy for pituitary adenomas or craniopharyngiomas. Herein, we report a case of sellar glioblastoma with suprasellar extension with no prior radiation history who mimicked clinical and radiologic findings of a pituitary macroadenoma.

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This work was supported in part by grants from NIH 3P30CA023100-25S8 to S. Kesari.

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  1. Department of Neurosciences, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA

    Ali Mahta & Santosh Kesari

  2. Section of Neuroradiology, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Schittenhelmstrasse 10, 24105, Kiel, Germany

    Ralf Buhl, Hongguang Huang, Olav Jansen & Stephan Ulmer

  3. Moores UCSD Cancer Center, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, Rm 3336, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0819, USA

    Santosh Kesari

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Mahta, A., Buhl, R., Huang, H. et al. Sellar and supra-sellar glioblastoma masquerading as a pituitary macroadenoma. Neurol Sci 34, 605–607 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-012-1110-1

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