"Treatment is usually reserved for patients with symptomatic lesions (e.g. visual failure due to chiasmatic compression) or those in whom the diagnosis is not obvious (e.g. not known to have a malignancy, or thought to be in remission). Surgical decompression and biopsy in both cases can be carried out, although the overall prognosis and physical reserves of the patient need to be taken into account."
"Langerhans cell histiocytosis (eosinophilic granuloma)"
Expected headings
"Sizeable mass"
"Infundibular lesion"
"The demographics of affected patients reflect that of underlying primary tumours, which are most frequently breast cancer in women and lung cancer in men; thus elderly patients are most commonly affected 1,2. Pituitary metastases account for a minority of all intracranial metastases, although the figures vary widely from publication to publication 1."