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Granulomatous hypophysitis with psammoma bodies: a diagnostic dilemma
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Granulomatous hypophysitis with psammoma bodies: a diagnostic dilemma

R Jastania, T Nageeti, K Kovacs, S Ezzat and S L Asa
Endocrine pathology, Vol.15(4), pp.359-363
01/12/2004
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1385/EP:15:4:359
PMID: 15681861

Abstract

Adult Calcinosis - pathology Diagnosis, Differential Female Granuloma - pathology Humans Hypopituitarism - etiology Hypopituitarism - pathology Inclusion Bodies - pathology Inflammation - pathology Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pituitary Diseases - complications Pituitary Diseases - pathology Sella Turcica - pathology
We report a case of granulomatous hypophysitis with an unusual pathologic finding of psammoma bodies. This finding has not previously been described in the literature. The diagnostic implications of this finding are complex, and the pathogenesis of psammoma body formation in this idiopathic disorder remains unknown.

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