Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: IgG4-dependent disease is a newly defined fibroinflammatory disease. This disease has been shown to affect almost all organs in the body, especially the pancreas, salivary gland, orbital tissue, lymph node, lung and kidney. IgG4 hypophysitis is a rare and inflammatory process that mimics pituitary tumors. The diagnosis of IgG4 releated hypophysitis can be done in many ways. The definitive diagnosis is biopsy; however, it is not necessary in most cases. If the oth...