Although a relatively rare phenomenon, lymphocytic hypophysitis can represent a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. This condition was initially thought to be an autoimmune phenomenon ...

An exhaustive diagnostic work-up revealed no signs of a drug-induced, infectious, parainfectious, or autoimmune reason for the hypophysitis. Although the cause of hypophysitis often remains ...

Debate will continue as to whether lymphocytic hypophysitis is in fact a type of autoimmune phenomenon. Although the inflammatory process is relatively well stereotyped, there are many variations ...