Publications by authors named "Maria F Battistone"
Article Synopsis
- Sellar metastases (SM), which are rare occurrences linked to advanced cancer, often arise from primary tumors like breast and lung cancer.
- A study reviewed 18 cases of SM from 2009 to 2020, revealing symptoms such as diabetes insipidus and visual disturbances, with a significant number of patients diagnosed with primary tumors only after sellar mass identification.
- Most patients exhibited severe health issues, with a high surgical intervention rate, but unfortunately, the median survival post-diagnosis was only 6 months, highlighting the aggressive nature of these metastases.
Introduction: Primary hypophysitis (PH) is a rare disease that represents a challenge among differential diagnosis and management. Our aim was to describe clinical characteristics, diagnostic criteria and different treatment outcomes in patients with PH. Multicentric, retrospective study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Current international guidelines recommend colonoscopy in patients with acromegaly at the time of diagnosis, even though the risk of developing colorectal neoplasm is still controversial. The main objective of this Argentine multicenter study was to analyze through screening colonoscopy the presence of advanced neoplastic lesions considered as precancerous, in patients with acromegaly compared to a control group.
Methods: This is a case-control retrospective study.