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Isolated hypophyseal tuberculoma: case report
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Isolated hypophyseal tuberculoma: case report
Clin Neuropathol.
1988 Nov-Dec.
Abstract
A 45-year-old woman, lifelong resident in Turin presented an isolated tuberculous granuloma of the hypophysis with no other systemic localizations. Diagnosis could be established only by biopsy. With antituberculous therapy the intracellular tumor regressed but not the endocrine disorders.
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