This gross photo of the
brain with the adenoma was initially published in Laboratory Medicine,
volume 29, number 10, page 612. It had been submitted as one of the
photographs in the 1998 Art and Science of Medicine Photography contest.
It was taken and submitted by Dr. James M. Gulizia of Brigham and
Women's Hospital, Boston.
This picture is of a
"benign" pituitary adenoma. Although biologically benign, it is sure in
the wrong place and can be lethal just because of its location. You will
see clusters and cords of the tumor cells, and it may be tricky to distinguish
the tumor from the surround normal pituitary. Does the term "tumor" apply
here? You should see no mitoses.
