Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Tumors

by Thapar, Kamal; Kovacs, Kalman; Scheithauer, Bernd W.; Lloyd, Ricardo

• ISBN13: 9780896034037
• ISBN10: 0896034038
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Humana Pr Inc

Summary

Eminent clinicians and specialists thoroughly review in great detail every aspect of pituitary tumors. The topics covered include prolactinomas, somatotroph adenomas, corticotroph adenomas, thyrotroph adenomas, nonfunctioning tumors, pituitary tumors, invasive adenomas, and pituitary carcinomas, as well as lesions, exclusive of pituitary adenomas, that occur in the sellar region. Also discussed are the new methods in endocrine diagnosis, high resolution imaging, receptor-mediated pharmacotherapy, microsurgical techniques, improved methods of radiation delivery, and the development of a precise and physiologically meaningful classification of pituitary tumors. Much-needed and brilliantly multidisciplinary, Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Tumors offers all those dealing with pituitary cancer patients today's most comprehensive guide to diagnosis and treatment, one whose coordinated treatment strategies have sharply improved long-term survival rates for many patients.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Contributors	xiii
Color Plates	xv
Pituitary Adenomas: Historic Considerations	1	(12)
Raymond V. Randall
Bernd W. Scheithauer
Kalman Kovacs
Anatomy of the Pituitary Gland and Sellar Region	13	(28)
Albert L. Rhoton, Jr.
Hypothalamic-Pituitary Physiology and Regulation	41	(16)
Miklos I. Goth
Gabor B. Makara
Ida Gerendai
Epidemiology of Pituitary Tumors	57	(14)
Shozo Yamada
Pathogenesis and Molecular Biology of Pituitary Tumors	71	(10)
Ilan Shimon
Shlomo Melmed
Experimental Models of Pituitary Tumorigenesis	81	(10)
Lucia Stefaneanu
Pathology of Pituitary Adenomas and Pituitary Hyperplasia	91	(64)
Bernd W. Scheithauer
Eva Horvath
Ricardo V. Lloyd
Kalman Kovacs
Molecular Pathology of Pituitary Tumors	155	(10)
Ricardo V. Lloyd
Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis of Pituitary Tumors: General Considerations	165	(8)
Mary Lee Vance
Neuro-Ophthalmologic Evaluation of Pituitary Tumors	173	(28)
Shirley I. Stiver
James A. Sharpe
Imaging of Pituitary Tumors	201	(18)
Derek Emery
Walter Kucharczyk
Positron Emission Tomography in Sellar Tumors: In Vivo Metabolic, Receptor, and Enzyme Characterization	219	(6)
Carin Muhr
Pituitary Surgery	225	(22)
Kamal Thapar
Edward R. Laws, Jr.
Medical Therapy of Pituitary Tumors	247	(22)
Mark E. Molitch
Radiation Therapy of Pituitary Tumors: Including Stereotactic Radiosurgery	269	(10)
B. Dawn Moose
Edward G. Shaw
Prolactinomas	279	(16)
Charles F. Abboud
Michael J. Ebersold
Somatotroph Adenomas: Acromegaly and Gigantism	295	(22)
Hans-Jurgen Quabbe
Ursula Plockinger
Corticotroph Adenomas: Cushing's Disease and Nelson's Syndrome	317	(16)
Joan C. Lo
J. Blake Tyrrell
Charles B. Wilson
Thyrotroph Adenomas	333	(10)
Michael Buchfelder
Rudolf Fahlbusch
Clinically Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas	343	(10)
William F. Young, Jr.
Pituitary Tumors in Children	353	(16)
Nalin Gupta
James T. Rutka
Invasive Pituitary Adenoma and Pituitary Carcinoma	369	(18)
Peter J. Pernicone
Bernd W. Scheithauer
Sellar Tumors Other Than Adenomas	387	(62)
Paul E. McKeever
Mila Blaivas
Stephen S. Gebarski
Tumor-like Lesions of the Sellar Region	449	(12)
Wolfgang Saeger
Pituitary Tumors: Future Perspectives	461	(6)
Gregory M. Miller
Xun Zhang
Anne Klibanski
Index	467