Pituitary stalk metastasis from breast cancer treated with systemic chemotherapy

Oncol Rep. 2003 Nov-Dec;10(6):1973-5.

Abstract

We describe a 61-year-old woman with diabetes insipidus caused by a pituitary stalk metastasis from breast cancer. She had a medical history of breast conservation therapy for early breast cancer 5 years previously. Pituitary, lung, liver, bone and neck lymphnode metastases was revealed at the same time. She received systemic chemotherapy consisting of docetaxel and cisplatin. After chemotherapy MRI finding in pituitary gland was improved, lung and liver metastases also improved, however, symptoms of diabetes insipidus did not improve. She is alive, receiving endocrine treatment for 2 years, since onset of diabetes insipidus.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / pharmacology
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic / pharmacology
  • Brain / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms / complications
  • Breast Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Cisplatin / therapeutic use
  • Diabetes Insipidus / complications
  • Diabetes Insipidus / drug therapy
  • Diabetes Insipidus / pathology
  • Docetaxel
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Metastasis*
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / pathology
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Taxoids / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
  • Taxoids
  • Docetaxel
  • Cisplatin