MRI Atlas of Pituitary Pathology

TABLE OF CONTENTS:1.Introduction2.Normal pituitary gland anatomy3.MRI interpretation4.Pituitary microadenoma5.Pituitary macroadenoma6.Atypical/ectopic adenomas 7.Large pituitary macroadenomas8.Cystic pituitary adenoma9.Cystic lesions10.Pituicytoma11.Chordoma12.Empty sella 13.Germinoma14.Craniopharyngioma15.Meningioma16.Pituitary hyperplasia 17.Anatomical variations18.Pituitary stalk transection19.Vascular lesions20.Infiltrative pathology21.Metastases22.Primary pituitary lymphoma23.Pituitary abscess24.Pituitary apoplexy25.Post-operative sellar changes 26.Volume averaging27.CT sella

Dr. Pantalone is a board certified Associate Staff Endocrinologist at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He currently serves as the Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Endocrinology. Dr. Pantalone is a graduate of Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. His clinical focus is on the glycemic management of type 2 diabetes, as well as the diagnosis and management of low testosterone in men, thyroid disorders, and pituitary tumors.Stephen Jones completed his undergraduate education at Caltech and earned a PhD in experimental physics at Cornell University, and thereafter was on the research faculty at MIT doing plasma physics and astrophysics. His wife, a psychiatrist, encouraged his growing interest in neuroscience and long desire to become a doctor, and he entered medical school at Tufts University. He completed all of his post-graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital, finishing with a neuroradiology fellowship. For the past eight years he has been a staff member at the Cleveland Clinic, dividing his time between clinical neuroradiology and neuroimaging research.