Pituitary Abscess: Review and Highlight of a Case Mimicking Pituitary Apoplexy

Initially described by Heslop in 1848 and Simmonds in 1914, there have since been multiple case reports in the literature of pituitary abscess, but only 3 series of 20 or more patients[1-3] with this disorder, all within the last decade. Even with more then 250 cases presented so far, pituitary absc...

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Published in:Canadian journal of neurological sciences 2013-09, Vol.40 (5), p.743-745
Main Authors: St-Pierre, Godefroy Hardy, de Ribaupierre, Sandrine, Rotenberg, Brian W., Benson, Carolyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abscess - complications
Abscess - pathology
Biological and medical sciences
Brief Communications
Fever - etiology
Headache - etiology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Neurology
Pituitary Apoplexy - etiology
Pituitary Gland - pathology
Tumors of the nervous system. Phacomatoses
Vision Disorders - etiology
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Summary:Initially described by Heslop in 1848 and Simmonds in 1914, there have since been multiple case reports in the literature of pituitary abscess, but only 3 series of 20 or more patients[1-3] with this disorder, all within the last decade. Even with more then 250 cases presented so far, pituitary abscess remains a clinical enigma with many unknowns. There have been even fewer cases of pituitary abscess acutely symptomatic with pituitary apoplexy: notably, only one article links these two explicitly[4].
ISSN:0317-1671
2057-0155
DOI:10.1017/S0317167100015055