Molecular imaging of pituitary tumors

D Gillett, J MacFarlane, W Bashari, R Crawford… - Seminars in Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
… MRI is the primary modality for visualizing pituitary tumors and key surrounding structures, …
clinicians in pituitary tumor centers of excellence. In this context, molecular imaging may offer …

Advances in the imaging of pituitary tumors

J MacFarlane, WA Bashari… - Endocrinology and …, 2020 - endo.theclinics.com
… have been investigated for molecular imaging of pituitary tumors with varying success. … , a
role for molecular imaging, with its ability to confirm/localize sites of functioning active tumor, is …

Using molecular imaging to enhance decision making in the management of pituitary adenomas

WA Bashari, R Senanayake, J MacFarlane… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
… Here, we review published evidence supporting the use of molecular imaging in the … pituitary
tumor volume- and hormoneresponse to ocreotide therapy and do not correlate with tumor

Molecular imaging in neuroendocrine tumors: molecular uptake mechanisms and clinical results

KP Koopmans, ON Neels, IP Kema, PH Elsinga… - Critical reviews in …, 2009 - Elsevier
… Neuroendocrine tumors can originate almost everywhere in the body and … molecular imaging
methods using nuclear medicine techniques in neuroendocrine tumors, coupling molecular

Modern imaging of pituitary adenomas

WA Bashari, R Senanayake… - Best practice & research …, 2019 - Elsevier
… for imaging of PA, examines the potential added value that alternative MR sequences and/or
CT can offer, and considers how the use of functional/molecular imaging … for Pituitary Tumor

Morpho-molecular metabolic analysis and classification of human pituitary gland and adenoma biopsies based on multimodal optical imaging

G Giardina, A Micko, D Bovenkamp, A Krause… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
… pathological tissue from intact pituitary gland. Our multimodal imaging approach allows for
morpho-molecular metabolic analysis and discrimination of pituitary gland and adenomas …

Molecular imaging of neuroendocrine tumors

JA Carrasquillo, CC Chen - Seminars in oncology, 2010 - Elsevier
imaging modalities. In fact, the unique secretory characteristics of these tumors lend themselves
to imaging by molecular imaging … Here, we review the molecular imaging approaches for …

Pituitary tumors in childhood: update of diagnosis, treatment and molecular genetics

MF Keil, CA Stratakis - Expert review of neurotherapeutics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… , familial isolated pituitary adenoma and McCune–Albright syndrome. The study of pituitary
… of the molecular basis of pituitary tumors and may lead to new therapeutic developments. …

Molecular imaging of neuroendocrine neoplasms

J Refardt, J Hofland, D Wild… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… In summary, SSTR imaging is recommended as the standard molecular imaging technique
for diagnosis and staging in most well-differentiated NENs (14). 68Ga-SSTR PET/CT thereby …

Current molecular imaging of spinal tumors in clinical practice

N Sandu, G Pöpperl, ME Toubert, T Spiriev, B Arasho… - Molecular …, 2011 - Springer
tumors, as well as In osseous spinal tumors/metastasis in vivo, are rarely performed only with
molecular imaging (… This imaging modality developed from a small number of basic clinical …