An exclusive Pituitary World News educational series for patients, families, physicians and healthcare professionals interested in the pituitary gland, by Dr. Lewis Blevins.
From the recent conference on controversies in pituitary medicine held at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in October 2024, four of the most experienced neurosurgeons in the world discuss issues related to the latest techniques and procedures available for pituitary surgery.
Ana’s work to push forward to get a diagnosis and understand what was going on with her, led to a diagnosis that might have been otherwise considerably delayed.
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.
