Abstract:The purpose of this manuscript is to report a case of symptomatic breast cancer metastasis to the pituitary gland, a described yet exceedingly rare phenomenon. A 52-year-old woman with a known history of stage-IV breast cancer treated 3 years prior with chemotherapy presented to the emergency department with 2 weeks of right-sided periorbital headache and 1 week of right-sided ptosis. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a 1.9 cm × 2.8 cm × 2.8 cm mass in the pituitary with mass effect on the right optic chiasm. … Show more
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