title: Lymphocytic adenohypophysitis.
abstract: Lymphocytic adenohypophysitis is a rare but important cause of decreased pituitary function, which predominantly affects young women in pregnancy or the peripartum period. It is an autoimmune disease of the pituitary gland which can present with varying degrees of pituitary hormonal impairment and/or with symptoms related to pituitary enlargement.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Obstetricians & gynecologists.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  After completing this CME activity, physicians should be better able to describe the given clinical features of lymphocytic hypophysitis, conduct a differential diagnosis, and select the appropriate treatments for patients with lymphocytic hypophysitis.
authors: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Center for Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115-0916, USA. Nastaran.Foyouzi-Yousefi@ucsfmedctr.org
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authors: Foyouzi