Necrotizing granulomatous hypophysitis presenting as a sellar mass

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-9

  Al Haddad, Sahar ^a   Fandino, Rafael ^b   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^c   Galvis, Leandro ^b   Syro, Luis V ^d   Kovacs, Kalman ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Clinica San Jose   (Colombia)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL PABLO TOBÓN URIBE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Necrotizing granuloma; Pituitary; Sellar mass

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; EYE EXAMINATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSITIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYCOSIS; NECROTIZING GRANULOMATOUS HYPOPHYSITIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SYPHILIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; TUBERCULOSIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NECROSIS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SARCOIDOSIS; SELLA TURCICA; SYPHILIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79953292297     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-011-9148-9     Document Type: Article

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