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Pituitary Lymphoma: A Case Report and Literature Review

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We report the case of a B-cell type pituitary lymphoma in a 65 year-old male immunocompetent patient who presented with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and central hypothyroidism and subsequently developed pulmonary lymphoma. Only three cases of pituitary lymphoma have been previously reported, one in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, one case of T-cell lymphoma reported in the Japanese literature, and one case of B-cell lymphoma. The previously reported immunocompetent patients presented with signs and symptoms of optic chiasm compression as contrasted to our patients endocrinologic presentation. B-cell lymphoma of the pituitary gland is a exceedingly rare though distinct clinical entity.

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  1. Division of Skull Base Surgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

    Ronald A. Mathiasen, Reza Jarrahy, Sung Tae Cha & Hrayr K. Shahinian

  2. Department of Pathology, Saint Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Kalman Kovacs

  3. Department of Pathology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Kalman Kovacs

  4. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

    Vivien S. Herman

  5. Division of Endocrinology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

    Vivien S. Herman

  6. Department of Surgery, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York

    Reza Jarrahy

  7. Department of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

    Eli Ginsberg

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Mathiasen, R.A., Jarrahy, R., Tae Cha, S. et al. Pituitary Lymphoma: A Case Report and Literature Review. Pituitary 2, 283–287 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009969417380

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