Intracranial and intraspinal dissemination from a growth hormone-secreting pituitary tumor
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) in Journal of Neurosurgery
- Vol. 64 (1) , 140-144
- https://doi.org/10.3171/jns.1986.64.1.0140
Abstract
✓ A 48-year-old woman developed multiple intracranial and intraspinal metastases from an invasive growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma after surgery and radiation therapy. This is the first reported case to show that the cells in the metastatic tumors and in the cerebrospinal fluid contained growth hormone.Keywords
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