Radiology Case Reports (Jan 2015)

Tablets or scalpel: Pituitary hyperplasia due to primary hypothyroidism

  • Ahmed Imran Siddiqi, MBBS, MRCP,
  • Joan Grieve, FRCS, MD,
  • Katherine Miszkiel, MRCP, FRCR,
  • Stephanie E. Baldeweg, MD, FRCP, FRCPI

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v10i2.1099
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2

Abstract

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We describe a patient with pituitary hyperplasia due to primary hypothyroidism. Pituitary hyperplasia and pituitary masses cannot be reliably differentiated on imaging alone, despite significant improvement in imaging quality in recent years.