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Can a pituitary tumor still be present even if blood labs are normal?

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Dr. Mohammed Parvez answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

May be: If the tumor size is small, it may not give symptoms and lab reports may come normal. It will be picked up MRI brain incidentally.

Answered 9/29/2016

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