Lymphocytic Hypophysitis

Lymphocytic hypophysitis.

BACKGROUND Lymphocytic hypophysitis is a disorder of the pituitary gland that presents as a sellar mass lesion and/or hypopituitarism. It causes pituicyte destruction and hypopituitarism and is speculated to have an autoimmune basis. DIAGNOSIS Lymphocytic hypophysitis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pituitary masses and/or hypopituitarism in females who are pregnant or i...

Lymphocytic hypophysitis.

Lymphocytic hypophysitis is a rare but important cause of pituitary hypofunction which predominantly affects young women in the peripartum period. It is believed to be an autoimmune disorder with an association with other autoimmune disorders and expression of anti-pituitary cytosolic and anti-nuclear antibodies. Clinically, it presents most frequently with symptoms and signs attributable to pi...

Lymphocytic hypophysitis.

Lymphocytic hypophysitis.

Lymphocytic hypophysitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland which may be related to an autoimmune process. Only twenty cases are reported in male. Patients usually present with symptoms of an expanding intrasellar mass or varying degrees of hypopituitarism. Most of the cases are misconsidered preoperatively as pituitary adenomas. We report a case of lymphocytic hypophysitis w...

Apoplectic lymphocytic hypophysitis

headache, vision loss, and ophthalmoplegia from pituitary hemorrhage or infarction characterize pituitary apoplexy,1,3,6–8 and MR imaging of the brain often demonstrates a pituitary mass with heterogeneous signal due to the presence of blood.7 Apoplexy typically occurs in a previously unrecognized pituitary adenoma, but it can also occur when the pituitary gland is normal. Various precipitating...