Synoptic reporting of pituitary magnetic resonance imaging

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Pituitary adenomas are common, often asymptomatic tumours that are diagnosed incidentally by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain. There is considerable variation in the reporting of pituitary MRI, in part because there is no consensus as to what information should be included in such reports. Synoptic reporting consists of using structured checklists to standardize communication. It has been adopted in the surgical pathology literature and more recently in the breast imaging field. The purpose of this study was to assess what parameters of a pituitary MRI report were useful to surgeons and in doing so, to propose a synoptic reporting template. METHODS: We used the Delph..