DURAL TAIL IN PITUITARY-ADENOMA

Although a dural tail has been described in association with meningiom as and, rarely, with other tumors in MR imaging with Gd-DPTA. Recently , a pituitary lesion was evaluated by MRI and presented a tail. For th is reason the lesion was thought to be a meningioma of the tuberculum sellae, but at surgery proved to be an adenoma.