Non-endocrine pituitary tumors - Bok av Khadra Faraoun - Häftad
Non-endocrine tumors of the sellar region can extend in all directions, and particularly supra sellar, where they are responsible for a chiasmatic syndrome plus or minus intracranial hypertension, or even neuropsychic disorders, which is why they are so serious and so difficult to manage.A distinction is made between tumors of the posthypophysis, known as pituicytomas, which develop from specialized glial cells of the posthypophysis, and dysgenetic tumors arising from remnants of the pharyngo-pituitary..