Intrasellar paraganglioma associated with hypopituitarism
Bilbao, J.M.; Horvath, E.; Kovacs, K.; Singer, W.; Hudson, A.R.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 102(2): 95-98
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9985 PMID: 341846 Document Number: 134737
A 37-year-old with a history of postpubertal arrest of sexual development and delayed growth was found to have an enlarged sella turcica. The clinical and biochemical features were consistent with hypopituitarism. A tumor was removed transsphenoidally that, through light microscopy, histochemistry, and electron microscopy, proved to be a paraganglioma. We report the possible origin of intrasellar paraganglioma, as well as the pathogenesis of hypopituitarism.