Pituitary apoplexy secondary to metastatic breast carcinoma into a gonadotroph cell adenoma of the pituitary.

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    • Subject Terms:
      PITUITARY tumors; METASTATIC breast cancer; CEREBROVASCULAR disease; PITUITARY gland; CARCINOMA
    • Abstract:
      A 65 year-old lady with metastatic breast cancer presented with pituitary apoplexy. Following surgery, histopathology confirmed metastatic breast carcinoma into a gonadotroph cell adenoma of the pituitary. Tumours that metastasise to a normal pituitary gland are unusual. More so, such neoplasm-to-neoplasm metastasis is extremely rare. This is, as far as we are aware, the first description of a metastasis into a gonadotroph cell pituitary adenoma presenting as apoplexy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]