Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypophysitis is a rare pituitary inflammation due to primary and secondary causes. Xanthomatous hypophysitis is the rarest subtype and described with lipid-laden cystic areas, transparent cytoplasmic and lipid-laden histiocytes and foamy (xanthomatous) histiocytes. Although the etiology of xanthomatous hypophysitis is not clearly known, it has been suggested to develop as a result of autoimmune cause or inflammatory process of infiltration of cyst components from...