Lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis presenting as diabetes insipidus in a man

J Endocrinol Invest. 1998 Sep;21(8):537-40. doi: 10.1007/BF03347341.

Abstract

We report a patient with diabetes insipidus, whose sella magnetic resonance imaging revealed a normal hypophysis with a focal nodular thickening of the infundibulum and lack of hyper-intense signal of the normal neurohypophysis. The histopathologic examination of the lesion showed a lymphoplasmacytic, predominantly lymphocytic, infiltration. A diagnosis of lymphocytic infundibuloneurohypophysitis was made, by the exclusion of other infiltrative, granulomatous diseases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antigens, CD20 / analysis
  • Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus
  • Blood
  • Diabetes Insipidus / etiology*
  • Diuresis
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Leukocyte Common Antigens / analysis
  • Lymphocytes / pathology*
  • Male
  • Microsurgery
  • Osmolar Concentration
  • Pituitary Diseases / complications
  • Pituitary Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Pituitary Diseases / surgery
  • Pituitary Gland / pathology
  • Polyuria
  • Urine

Substances

  • Antigens, CD20
  • Leukocyte Common Antigens