title: Granulomatous hypophysitis with psammoma bodies: a diagnostic dilemma.
abstract: We report a case of granulomatous hypophysitis with an unusual pathologic finding of psammoma bodies. This finding has not previously been described in the literature. The diagnostic implications of this finding are complex, and the pathogenesis of psammoma body formation in this idiopathic disorder remains unknown.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, University Health Network and Toronto Medical Laboratories, Canada.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jastania
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nageeti
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kovacs
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ezzat
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Asa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000473:pathology*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000473:pathology