| pubmed-article:2602349 | pubmed:abstractText | The paper is concerned with the use of a new tomographic method based on the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR-tomography) in the diagnosis of adenohypophyseal diseases. A NMR-tomograph with a resistive magnet (0.234 T) was employed. Altogether 15 patients with the most common types of hypothalamo-hypophyseal diseases including Itsenko-Cushing disease (6) of various degrees of severity, hyperprolactinemic hypogonadism (8), and one patient with acromegaly were investigated. NMR-tomography was shown to possess a high informative value permitting assessment of the presence of adenohypophyseal pathology without irradiation of a patient. NMR-tomography combined with routine methods of examination of patients with hypothalamohypophyseal pathology (roentgenography, computerized tomography, hormonal investigation) made it possible to improve considerably early diagnosis of pituitary adenomas and to specify the volume and type of tumor growth. | lld:pubmed |
