Lymphocytic hypophysitis
- Division of Neurosurgery and Division of Neuropathology, Veterans Administration Medical Center and Boston University Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Dr Anthony Jabre, Boston University Hospital, Doctors Office Building, Suite 710, 720 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA.
- Received 3 July 1996
- Revised 15 April 1997
- Accepted 22 April 1997
Abstract
A male patient with lymphocytic hypophysitis is reported on. Lymphocytic hypophysitis is a rare disease that may mimic pituitary adenoma and occurs mostly in women in the peripartum period. Only six other cases have been reported in men. Optimal treatment is unclear from the literature, as the results have been inconsistent and the reported cases few. The patient described here was successfully treated by means of transphenoidal surgery and a one year course of treatment with cortisone acetate.
