An exclusive Pituitary World News educational series for patients, families, physicians and healthcare professionals interested in the pituitary gland, by Dr. Lewis Blevins.
Pituitary Grand Rounds is a new PWN program loosely based on the practice medical schools routinely use to educate young doctors. It is a fantastic way to share patient’s insights, their symptoms and signs, how
Podcast and Video: In today’s podcast and accompanying video, Dr. Blevins discusses and illustrates the case of a patient with a double pituitary adenoma.
UCSF Neurosurgeon Dr. Manish Aghi, MD, Ph.D. Professor of Neurological Surgery UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences presents “Endoscopic surgery for sellar and parasellar tumors – Lessons learned in the OR and laboratory.”
Dr. Blevins discusses an interesting case of neurosarcoidosis showing a lesion when it was most active and concludes with a view twelve years later after it burned out.
Dr. Lewis Blevins describes what was suggested as a possible pituitary tumor in a 36-year-old patient causing hypopituitarism and growing in size. The assumed tumor turns out to be a calcifying pseudoneoplasm of the neuraxis. Learn more here about these rare masses in this fascinating MRI video.
A discussion of an MRI radiology study of a patient with a fascinating case of hypergonadism. Click here for more MRI videos with Dr. Blevins’ commentary.
