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BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE This case highlights the fact that acute pituitary apoplexy may be misdiagnosed due to being confused with other entities exhibiting similar symptoms, such as meningitis or subarachnoid hemorrhage. CLINICAL PRESENTATION A patient in his late 30s presented with sudden and severe frontal headache, fever, blurred vision, nausea, confusion, as well as oculomotor palsy (CN III)...
Pituitary incidentalomas are lesions which are detected incidentally in the pituitary gland during imaging procedures for unrelated causes, such as headache, trauma or symptoms involving the neck or central nervous system. The wide application of sensitive brain imaging techniques (CT, MRI) has led to an increasing recognition of such lesions. Although the etiology of pituitary incidentalomas covers...
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