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2. PITUITARY GLAND – AN
OVERVIEW
WEIGHS Just 600 mg
Cranio caudal dimensions 8-10mm
Cranio caudal dimensions 8-10mm
Upper border is usually flat or concave
EXERCISES DIRECT OR INDIRECT CONTROL ON EVERY
ORGAN SYSTEM
3. PITUITARY GLAND – AN OVERVIEW
Sella turcica - part of body of sphenoid bone
Depth- upper limit 13mm
Length- upper limit 17mm
Length- upper limit 17mm
Width – upperlimit 15 mm
volume 1100 mm3
6. ADENOHYPOPHYSIS :
DELICATE ACINAR ARCHITECTURE
IN HORIZONTAL CROSS SECTION ,COMPOSED
IN HORIZONTAL CROSS SECTION ,COMPOSED
OF
TWO LATERAL WINGS
TRAPEZOID CENTRAL MUCOID WEDGE
7. SOMATOTROPHS ANTERIOR PART OF THE LATERAL WINGS
LACTOTROPHS POSTERIOR PART OF THE LATERAL WINGS
CORTICOTROPHS CENTRAL WEDGE , JUST ANTERIOR TO
POSTERIOR LOBE
THYROTROPHS ANTEROMEDIAL PART OF CENTRAL
WEDGE
GONADOTROPHS THROUGH OUT PARS DISTALIS
8.
9. NEUROHYPOPHYSIS
CONTAINS ONLY AXONS AND FENESTRATED
CAPPILARIES
DIVIDED INTO
DIVIDED INTO
MEDIAN EMINENCE
INFUNDIBULAR STEM
NEURAL LOBE
10. PITUITARY TUMOURS
10-15% *OF ALL PRIMARY
BRAIN TUMOURS
*kovcks et al .Tumours of pituitary gland.Atlas of
tumour pathology
ANNUAL INCIDENCE OF 8.2 – 14.7
CASE** / 100000 POPULATION
**annegers et al.report of increasing incidence of
diagnosis in women of child bearing age. Mayo clin
proc
THOUGH INCIDENCE IS
EQUAL, IT IS DIAGNOSED
MORE COMMONLY IN
FEMALES
11. THIRD MOST
COMMON
PRIMARY
BRAINTUMOURS
AUTOPSY
INCIDENCE: 20-25%*
OF POPULATION
molitch et al . Incidental pituitary
adenomas. Am J Med Sci.1993
10%* OF ROUTINE MRI
SCANS SHOW OCCULT
PITUITARY
MICROADENOMA.
*molitch et al . Incidental pituitary
adenomas. Am J Med Sci.1993
BETWEEN 3RD –
6TH DECADE OF
LIFE
12. PITUITARY TUMOURS
GENETICS
MEN 1
3% OF ALL PITUITARY TUMOURS
AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER
VARIABLE PENETRANCE
OCCCURS IN 25% OF AFFECTED PATIENTS with MEN 1
PRL OR GH MACROADENOMAS
18. HYPERSECRETION
70% OF PITUITARY ADENOMAS ARE
ENDOCRINOLOGICALLY ACTIVE
MOST COMMON MODE OF
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION VARIES ACCORDING
TO THE HORMONE IN EXCESS
19. PITUITARY INSUFFICIENCY
BY COMPRESSION OF
NON TUMOUROUS
PITUITARY , PITUITARY
STALK,HYPOTHALAMUS.
CHRONIC PROCESS, CAN
BE ACUTE AS IN
PITUITARY APOPLEXY
GONADOTROPHS MOST
VULNERABLE
21. HARDY’S Classification
• Microadenomas – Grades 0 and I
• Macroadenomas – Grades II to IV
Grade 0 : Intrapituitary microadenoma with
normal sellar floor
normal sellar floor
Grade I : Normal-sized sella with asymmetric floor
Grade II : Enlarged sella with an intact floor
Grade III : Localized erosion of sellar floor
Grade IV : Diffuse destruction of floor
22. Modified Hardy Wilson Classification
Type A: Tumor bulges into the
chiasmatic cistern
Type B: Tumor reaches the floor of
the 3rd ventricle
Type C: Tumor is more voluminous
with extension into the 3rd ventricle
up to the foramen of Monro
Type D: Tumor extends into
temporal or frontal fossa
TYPE E : Extradural spread (
extension into or out of the
cavenous sinus)
24. WHO Classification
Five-tiered
• Clinical presentation and
secretory activity
• Size and invasiveness (e.g. Hardy)
• Histology (typical vs. atypical)
Five-tiered
system
• Histology (typical vs. atypical)
• Immunohistologic profile
• Ultrasturctural subtype
25. PITUITARY ADENOMAS
A. PROLACTINOMA
• Most common primary tumour of pituitary
• 30% of all pituitary adenoma
Female : male = 20: 1 for microadenoma
1:1 for macroadenoma
• Characterized by hyperprolactinemia
• Characterized by hyperprolactinemia
• Prolactin
25 ng/ ml - normal
25- 150ng/ml - prolactinoma, stalk effect, drugs ,
Hypothyroid
150ng/ml - prolactinoma(pure or mixed)
1000 ng/ml - invasive prolactinomas
28. PITUITARY ADENOMAS
B. GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING
PITUITARY ADENOMAS
Growth hormone
Most abundant pituitary hormone
Most abundant pituitary hormone
Secretion is pulsatile
Physiological excess seen in stress, trauma,
sepsis, estrogen replacement
Exerts it’s action through IGF -1
29. GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING
PITUITARY ADENOMAS
Equal incidence in males and females
more than 60% are macroadenomas
4th and 5th decade
4 and 5 decade
15% Of all pituitary tumors
plurihormonal
Overall mortality is increased 3 folds as compared to age
matched controls
34. DIAGNOSIS
• Random GH – not useful gives false positive and false negative
results
• Insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) – best for
screening represents average daily GH secretion
screening represents average daily GH secretion
• Insufficient GH suppression on oral glucose
tolerance testing – gold standard to confirm diagnosis :75 mg
of glucose load normally suppresses GH 2ng/ml RIA. GH nadir 2ng/ml
RIA with adenoma confirms it
35. Pituitary adenomas
Cushing’s disease
5 to 10 times more common in females than males
3rd and 4th decade
10-15% of all pituitary tumors
Highest morbidity of all pituitary hypersecretory disorders
Most common cause of death is cardiovascular complication
36. CUSHING’S DISEASE
Ch. Exposure of tissues to excessive cortisol
Moon facies
Centripetal obesity
Buffalo hump
Thin skin ,purple abdominal striae, ecchymosis
Psychological
Glucose intolerance
Hematopoietic features include leukocytosis, lymphopenia, eosinopenia
Osteoporosis, proximal myopathy,
Impaired immune function
Hirsutism, acne menstrual irregularities in females
Oligospermia, impotence in males
39. Diagnosis
24 hr urinary free
cortisol(100mcg)1 and 17 OH-
corticosteroids(12mg)
1 mg overnight
dexamethasone test- best
screening test
Low dose dexamethasone
suppression test
screening test suppression test
High dose dexamethasone
suppression
Plasma ACTH levels
Inferior petrosal sinus
sampling
40. INVESTIGATION PROTOCOL
• History and physical examination
• Neuro- ophthalmology:
Acuity, field, fundus and movements
• Hormone levels basal hormone and dynamic testing
• Hormone levels basal hormone and dynamic testing
Aim- hypersecretory state/insufficiency
• Radiology (a) X-Rays
(b) MRI
(c) NCCT/CECT
(d)PET/DSA
• Routine blood investigation
41. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
OPTIC NERVE consists of 1.5 million fibres.
Total length is 5 cm of which 12-16 mm is
Total length is 5 cm of which 12-16 mm is
intracranial.
Both optic nerves after coming out of optic canal
rise by 45 degrees and meet to form optic chiasm
42. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
OPTIC CHIASM can be
Prefixed 15%
Normal 70%
Post fixed 15%
With in the chiasm
PMB lies in the middle
Temporal hemi retinal fibers pass ipsilateraly
Nasal hemi retinal fibers decussate
43. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
Optic chiasm decussation
Inferior nasal fibers - anteroinferior
Superior nasal fibers - posterosuperior
PMB - in the middle primarily
postero superiorly
44.
45. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
Enlarging pituitary adenoma may compress
• Optic chiasm
• Optic nerve in patients with postfixed chiasm
• Optic tracts in patients with prefixed chiasm
• 3rd , 4th, 6th nerves with cavernous sinus extension causing diplopia
• Diplopia evaluation:: 3 principles
• Diplopia evaluation:: 3 principles
abnormal image is always peripheral
is always from the paretic eye
distance between the image increases on looking in the
direction of paretic muscle
• Third ventricle leading to hydrocephalus
46.
47. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
Visual evaluation in a case of pituitary adenoma
includes examination of:
Visual acuity
Colour vision
Colour vision
Visual fields
Opthalmoscopy
Pupils
Extraocular movements
48. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
VISUAL ACUITY
Eye’s ability to resolve details
• Neurosurgically , patients best corrected visual acuity is
pertinent
pertinent
• Distant vision by Snellen’s chart placed at 6 m where
accommodation is relaxed and light rays are parallel
• Near vision by rosenbaum’s pocket chart held at a
distance of 14 inches
49. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
COLOUR VISION
Loss of colour vision precedes other visual deficits
In neurosurgical disease, red perception is lost first
In neurosurgical disease, red perception is lost first
described as red desaturation or red wash outs
Ishihara/hardy ritter rand charts used
50. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF PITUITARY
ADENOMA
Visual fields
90 -100 deg temporally
60 deg nasally
50-60 deg superiorly
60-75 deg inferiorly
With binocular vision , VF of both eyes overlap
Visual fields are analyzed by
Confrontation method
Goldman’s perimeter
Humphrey’s field analyzer
56. NEURO OPTHALMICS OF
PITUITARY ADENOMA
Pituitary adenoma
can cause primary
optic atrophy
primary secondary
primary secondary
Colour of disc white grey
Border of disc Sharp Blurred
Arteries and veins Normal or reduced Arteries thin, veins
dilated
Distribution May affect one sector Entire disc affected
Causes Optic nerve/retinal
damage
Papillitis/papilledema
Lamina cribrosa visible Not visible
57. VEP
Evoked electro physiological potential that can be
extracted using signal averages from EEG activity
recorded at the scalp.
Provides diagnostic information regarding the
Provides diagnostic information regarding the
functional integrity of visual system.
Measures the time taken for visual stimuli to
travel from eye to occipital cortex.
Particularly useful in infants
59. Radiology
• X- Rays:
• Requires proper alignment of posterior clinoid
processes
widening of sella
widening of sella
destruction of sellar floor
relation of median sphenoidal septum
aeration of sphenoid sinus
61. CT HEAD
CT HEAD is especially useful for:
• Evaluating bony structures adjacent to adenoma
• Detecting calcifications in association with macro
adenoma
62. CT HEAD
• NCCT+ CECT head/ sella with thin coronal cuts:
Neck hyper extended(Reduces dental artifacts)
1.5 -2.0 mm cuts from tuberculum to dorsum sella
MICROADENOMAS
Focal hypo intensity
Increased vertical height
Increased vertical height
Asymmetrical convexity of superior surface
MACROADENOMAS
Isodense or heterogenous with mixed iso and hypo areas
intense contrast enhancement
63. MRI
Better visualization of optic apparatus/carotids
Multiplanar display
Coronal images
Examining asymmetries
Minimal volume artifacts
Sagittal images
Orientation of pituitary in relation to sphenoid sinus
Orientation of pituitary in relation to sphenoid sinus
Axial images
Useful in lesions with parasellar extension
Sensitivity for pituitary adenomas 90%
Sensitivity post contrast 95%
64. MRI
• Routine 1-2 T MRI produce 2-3 mm slices
• Newer techniques : reduce false negatives and
can reduce acquisition time
I. Volume imaging techniques(3 –D Fourier
I. Volume imaging techniques(3 –D Fourier
transform)
II. Fast spin echo
65. MRI
T1W
• more sensitive
• Better anatomical details of extra axial structures
• Obtained in shorter time period
• Obtained in shorter time period
Normal anterior lobe is intermediate grey
Posterior lobe is bright
• Paramagnetic contrast agents further improve
delineation
66. MRI
OPTIMAL TECHNIQUE
Use of head coil ,sagittal and coronal T1W
images , pixel size 0.8 mm on a side,and four
signal averages
signal averages
Thin section T1 W fast spin echo MR image is
the imaging of choice for pituitary adenomas
If necessary paramagnetic contrast agent Is used (
gadolinium-DTPA) and coronal T1W repeated
68. MRI
Microadenoma
Seen as area of focal hypo intensity
Usually well defined , laterally situated
Focal convexity upward
Focal convexity upward
Displacement of stalk to opposite side
Relative hypo intensity on immediate post
contrast sequences
70. MRI
• Dynamic imaging
Consists of a series of images at the same location to detect
temporal changes in the signal intensity
Sequential coronal images at 20- 30 sec intervals following
contrast injection
contrast injection
Slow uptake and slow wash out of contrast by pituitary
adenomas
*Avg time of enhancement onset in normal pituitary 43sec
Avg time of enhancement peak in normal pituitary 112 sec
Avg time of enhancement onset in pituitary adenoma 110sec
Avg time of enhancement peak in pituitary adenoma 188sec
Indrajit et al:value of dynamic mri in imaging of pituitary adenomas;indian journal of radiology and imaging: 2001
73. MRI
Macroadenoma
• soft tissue sellar mass of intermediate signal
intensity on T1W images
• Hyperintense on T2W
• Hyperintense on T2W
• Enhancing diffusely on contrast
• Superior spread most common
(Grows through diaphragma sellae - figure of 8
image )
78. GERMINOMAS
SEEN USUALLY IN
CHILDREN
(PINEAL REGION)
WHEN SUPRASELLAR
MIDLINE IN LOCATION ,
BEHIND INFUNDIBULUM
HYPO ON T1W, HYPER ON
HYPO ON T1W, HYPER ON
T2W, CONTRAST
ENHANCING
RATHKE’ CLEFT CYST
ANTERIOR HALF OF SELLA
TURCICA
IN FRONT OF PITUITARY
STALK
79. PITFALLS
False negatives
Especially with Cushing's disease in conventional
spin echo MRI
Pneumatized anterior clinoid process
Pneumatized anterior clinoid process
False positives
Small pars intermedia cysts
Clinically silent infarcts
Foci of necrosis
80. ROLE OF PET IN PITUITARY ADENOMA
• Primarily for monitoring treatment
• 11-C- methionine and 18 – FDG for metabolic
mapping.
mapping.
• Highest metabolic rate with prolactinoma
followed by growth hormone tumors.