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Diabetes insipidus in sellar-suprasellar tuberculoma
G D Satyarthee1, A K Mahapatra
1The Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi, India.
Abstract:
Tuberculoma involving the sellar and suprasellar region is extremely rare. Sellar region tuberculoma usually presents with endocrinopathy of hypofunction, rarely hyperfunction or normal function of the anterior pituitary. However, sellar-suprasellar tuberculoma presenting with diabetes insipidus (DI) is very rare. We report the case of a 32 year old housewife presenting with DI and secondary amenorrhea, who had a sellar-suprasellar mass on MRI. She underwent a transnasal transsphenoidal surgical removal of the pituitary mass, which was tubercular in nature on histology. She received antitubercular treatment and hormonal replacement therapy. She was well at last follow-up, 3 years after surgery.