Endocrine Abstracts

Lymphocytic hypophysitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland. The aetiology is unknown though probably of autoimmune origin.We report the case of a 40 year-old woman who presented 39/40 weeks pregnant with an inferior bitemporal homonymous quadrantinopia. She had primary hypothyroidsim and had had previous unsuccessful in-vitro fertilisation, though this conception was spontaneous. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated a large p...