January 2002: 59-year-old woman with an intrasellar lesion

Brain Pathol. 2002 Jul;12(3):391-2, 397. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2002.tb00453.x.

Abstract

An intrasellar lesion resembling a hormone-inactive pituitary adenoma was resected in a 59-year-old woman. The well-differentiated benign tumor was composed of ganglion-like cells, clusters of adenohypophyseal tissue as well as a GH-expressing adenoma. In addition, small cells exhibited an intermediate neuronal and epithelial immunoreactivity. Surrounding the tumor was a spindle cell component that histologically resembled Antoni A areas of a schwannoma, but showed a mixed immunohistochemical profile. Final diagnosis was intrasellar glioneuronal hamartoma with GH-cell pituitary adenoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenoma / pathology
  • Adenoma / surgery
  • Fatigue / etiology
  • Female
  • Ganglioneuroma / pathology
  • Ganglioneuroma / surgery
  • Headache / etiology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Paraneoplastic Endocrine Syndromes / diagnosis
  • Paraneoplastic Endocrine Syndromes / surgery
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Pituitary Neoplasms / surgery*