MRIs are an effective diagnostic tool for pituitary tumors. Although MRI scans can miss very small tumors, newer machines are better equipped to detect them. Most pituitary tumors are noncancerous ...

An outside head CT scan showed an enlarged pituitary gland. A pituitary MRI with magnified pituitary slices and gadolinium contrast was ordered. A well-circumscribed “snowman-shaped” sellar ...

With the widespread use of computed tomography and MRI, the incidental discovery of pituitary incidentalomas is increasing in frequency. The most common cause of a pituitary mass is a pituitary ...

Most other electronic and metal devices, such as brain stimulators or cochlear implants, are dangerous to use in an MRI machine, since the devices can heat up, move and tear the tissue when ...