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Pituitary adenoma presenting as bilateral bullous exudative retinal detachments: a clinicopathologic report
Patrick Williams1, Chi Chao Chan, Ronald Buggage
1From *Texas Retina Associates, Dallas, Texas; †Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; and ‡Emory Eye Clinic, Atlanta, Georgia.
Purpose:
To describe a case of pituitary adenoma presenting as bilateral serous retinal detachments and the histopathologic and hematologic evidence of a linkage.
Methods:
Record review for a single patient including testing to determine the etiology of the retinal detachments.
Results:
The retinal detachments were determined to be a variant of central serous chorioretinopathy. A pituitary adenoma was discovered by neuroimaging. Histopathologic analysis of the tumor and serum cortisol levels demonstrated the lesion to be a cortisol-secreting adenoma.
Conclusion:
Bilateral serous retinal detachments are a variant of central serous chorioretinopathy and a rare presentation of pituitary adenoma.
