Pituitary Lesion of Unknown Origin: Think Epithelioid Angiosarcoma

Léopoldine Bricaire; Chiara Villa; Mathilde Brière; Myriam Edjlali; Frédérique Larousserie; Marguerite d'Ussel; Jérôme Bertherat; Pascaline Boudou-Rouquette; Lionel Groussin

doi:10.1210/js.2016-1010

Pituitary Lesion of Unknown Origin: Think Epithelioid Angiosarcoma

J Endocr Soc. 2017 Jan 12;1(1):72-74. doi: 10.1210/js.2016-1010. eCollection 2017 Jan 1.

Authors

Léopoldine Bricaire¹, Chiara Villa^{2

3}, Mathilde Brière¹, Myriam Edjlali^{4

5}, Frédérique Larousserie^{6

4}, Marguerite d'Ussel⁷, Jérôme Bertherat^{1

4

3}, Pascaline Boudou-Rouquette⁶, Lionel Groussin^{1

4

3}

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Endocrinology.
² Department of Pathology, Hôpital Foch, 92151, Suresnes, France.
³ Institut Cochin, Inserm Unité 1016, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 8104, Descartes University, 75014, Paris, France.
⁴ Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75005, Paris, France.
⁵ Department of Neuroradiology, INSERM UMR894, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, 75013, Paris, France.
⁶ Oncology, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014, Paris, France.
⁷ Department of Emergency Unit, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Paris, 75015, France; and.

Abstract

Précis: We report the unusual etiology of a sellar aggressive mass, an epithelioid angiosarcoma, the diagnosis of which was made from positive epithelial and vascular markers.