Dr. Thomasina Bailey reviews pituitary session at recent USCAP meeting

A guest post from Thomasina Bailey, MD: I spent Saturday night, March 9,  up late in Baltimore at the AANP session at USCAP.  The talks focused on sellar lesions. The panel consisted of  Drs. Lopez, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters, and Burger.  Dr. Lopez  from UVA gave a really great overview of sellar lesions focusing in on pituitary adenomas.  She discussed the things that are clinically significant in the work-up of pituitary adenomas along with the controversies over atypical adenomas and carcinomas of the pituitary.  At the end of her talk, she listed her own WHO classification of pituitary adenomas giving a comparison to meningioma WHO grading.The next lecture was given by Dr. Kleinschmidt-DeMasters of University of Colorado on What’s New in Inflammatory Pituitary Lesions, Pituicytomas, Spindle Cell Oncocytomas,  and Craniopharyngiomas. During this hour numerous cases were reviewed. Of particular interest was the clinical pathological correlation of pharmacological treatment and the development of hypophysitis.  As she referenced articles and cases she called out audience members who were their authors. During the course of the talks there was a lot of audience interaction when comparing and contrasting use of certain antibodies.The icing on the cake was Dr. Burger's talk on oddball lesions of the sellar region. He started off the talk by noting that no one will probably ever see in their practices the entities he was about to ...
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