Prevalence of pituitary incidentaloma in the Iranian cadavers

• Main Authors: K Aghakhani (Author), M Kadivar (Author), S Kazemi-Esfeh (Author), N Zamani (Author), M Moradi (Author), H Sanaei-Zadeh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Aim: Although one-fourth of the pituitary tumors are inactive and silent, increased total volume of the pituitary gland exerts pressure on sella turcica and corrodes the clinoid processes, resulting in several problems. Therefore, determination of the prevalence of the concealed pituitary tumors is...