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标题：Breast carcinoma with pituitary metastasis
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作者：Gurjeet Singh Chowdhary ; Purvesh Agrawa
期刊名称：Journal of Marine Medical Society
印刷版ISSN：0975-3605
电子版ISSN：2589-1235
出版年度：2019
卷号：21
期号：1
页码：87-90
DOI：10.4103/jmms.jmms_38_18
语种：English
出版社：Medknow Publications
摘要：Background: Metastatic tumors are among the most common lesions in the brain.The pituitary gland is an uncommon site of metastasis for malignancies.Breast cancer is the most common primary neoplasm metastasizing to pituitary in women.It may cause hormonal problems in different patterns due to mass effect and invasion to the pituitary gland.Case Report: We report here a 47-year-old woman with estrogen receptor-positive,progesterone receptor-negative,of human epidermal growth factor-2-positive metastatic breast cancer being treated with palliative radiotherapy,immunotherapy,and antihormonal therapy.Conclusion: Pituitary metastasis is a rare event in cancer progression.Diabetes insipidus is the most important criterion for differentiation of pituitary metastasis from adenomas.Metastases to the pituitary gland from breast and lung primaries may indicate more advanced disease;however,despite this,localized radiotherapy nearly always needs to be considered to provide improvement in symptoms.
关键词：Diabetes insipidus;metastatic breast carcinoma;pituitary metastasis;radiotherapy