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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nucleus Profile Plus Implant is designed for safe access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans today and in the future. With the Nucleus Profile Plus Implant, cochlear implant recipients ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Medtronic said Monday that it has been cleared to market a heart defibrillator implant that can be safely used in an MRI scanner. Medtronic's Evera MRI SureScan is designated "MR ...

This is partly because it's challenging to design an implant that would work for every type of drug. Purdue University researchers developed a new method that uses an MRI to noninvasively see how an ...