Lymphocytic pituitary

In 1962, Goudie and Pinkerton reported a 22-year-old female patient with both pituitary and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. In the future, many scholars have reported several cases in succession, showing pituitary inflammation with hypohypophysis. The histological feature of these cases is diffuse lymphocytic infiltration of the pituitary gland, hence the name lymphocytic adenohypophysits. Later studies have shown that the above inflammatory lesions can also involve the pituitary gland and the pituitary stalk, called lymphocytic infundibuloneuro hypophysitis, which is clinically mainly manifested as central diabetes insipidus. If the lesion affects the entire pituitary, it is called lymphocytic hypophysitis.