Pituitary adenoma presenting with nasal obstruction: A case report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A 58-year-old lady presented with worsening congestion, nasal obstruction, and hyposmia. After failing medical therapy, a computed tomography (CT) scan was ordered which demonstrated a large tumor (6.1 cm × 3.9 cm x 5.2cm) in the nasal cavity. There was erosion through the skull base superiorly and the clivus inferiorly (Fig. 1). At this point she was referred to our center where she underwent endoscopic biopsies that demonstrated a pituitary adenoma. Formal visual testing showed decreased visual acuity in the right eye. She then underwent successful endoscopic resection of the tumor with significant improvement clinically. Pituitary adenomas are relatively common lesions and represent approximately 15% of all intracranial neoplasms. The presentation can be varied, but often patients present with headache, endocrinological disturbances, or visual changes. Nasal obstruction is a very rare presentation of a pituitary adenoma, but has been described in the literature, first being described in 1910. In the workup of a large nasal mass, imaging and histological exam is essential. The differential for nasal obstruction is large, but pituitary tumors (including adenoma) should be on the differential and kept in the back of the mind whenever a patient presents with a large posteriorly-based sinonasal mass.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".