Marco Mendola, Alessia Dolci, Lanfranco Piscopello, Giustino Tomei, Dario Bauer, Sabrina Corbetta, Bruno Ambrosi
We describe a patient affected by Cushing’s disease due to the presence of double pituitary adenomas, one located within the anterior pituitary and the other in the infundibulum associated with a remnant of Rakthe’s pouch. Cure was achieved only after the infundibulum lesion was surgically removed …
Ahmet Anık, Gönül Çatlı, Ayhan Abacı, Handan Güleryüz, Çağdaş Güdücü, Adile Öniz, Şule Can, Bumin Dündar, Ece Böber
OBJECTIVE: Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a genetic disorder with the distinctive features of hyposmia or anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Though hyposmia/anosmia can be evaluated by both objective and subjective smell tests, there is no study comparing these two methods in KS …
Nilufer Ozdemir Kutbay, Mustafa Berker, Figen Soylemezoglu, Hatice Ozisik, Banu Sarer Yurekli
Dear Sir, Hypophysitis is a rare disease of the pituitary gland whose incidence is 1 case per 9 million people per year. Hypophysitis, which can be categorized as primary (idiopathic) hypophysitis and secondary hypophysitis, may develop through systemic inflammatory disorders such as tuberculosis, Wegener’s granulomatosis and sarcoidosis. Based on histologic features …