Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypophysitis is an inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland that may mimic pituitary tumors clinically and radiologically. Primary hypophysitis has traditionnaly been classified as lymphocytic (LH), granulomatous (GH), and xanthomatous (XH).Case description: We report on a case of a xanthomatous hypophysitis initially diagnosed as pituitary adenoma. A 23-year-old men suffered from typical cluster type headache. Two years after the first ...