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encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine




Disease gangliocytoma
Comorbidity C0032000|pituitary adenomas
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PubMedID- 22963951 Discussion: we found 85 cases of intrasellar gangliocytomas with associated hormone-releasing pituitary adenomas reported in the literature, with the following distribution: 50 growth hormone-releasing (gh) cases (59%), 15 mixed (gh and prolactin-releasing) cases (17%), 11 prolactin-releasing cases (13%), 7 adrenocorticotropic hormone-releasing (acth) cases (8%) and 2 corticotropin hormone-releasing (crh) cases (2%).
PubMedID- 19551516 In a series of 1,322 sellar lesions, gangliocytomas associated with pituitary adenomas were estimated to account 0.52% of sellar tumors [8].
PubMedID- 25259876 The surgical results and prognoses of the gangliocytomas were comparable with those of pituitary adenomas.
PubMedID- 25883817 A great variety of lesions such as sarcoidosis, intrasellar schwannoma, and gangliocytoma can coexist with pituitary adenomas and are referred to as collision sellar lesions [4].

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