Vol. 27 (6) 2006 Neuro endocrinology letters

FSH-producing macroadenoma associated in a patient with Cushing's disease.

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE: We encountered a Cushing's disease patient whose surgically removed pituitary macroadenoma was not an ACTH-producing, but rather a gonadotroph adenoma. Cure was obtained only after a tiny microadenoma, overlooked on preoperative studies, was removed by a 2nd operation from a compressed thin normal anterior pitu.....