Spontaneous regression of a pituitary cyst

Neuroradiology. 1999 Jan;41(1):27-9. doi: 10.1007/s002340050699.

Abstract

We present a pituitary cyst discovered on MRI in an amenorrheic patient that regressed over months. Although the precise etiology of the cyst is unproven, documentation of pituitary cyst regression has not to our knowledge been described previously.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Craniopharyngioma / diagnosis*
  • Cysts / diagnosis*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Pituitary Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Remission, Spontaneous