Xanthogranuloma of the sellar region accompanied by growth hormone deficiency: case report and literature review
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Mami Kobayashi
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Hideaki Yagasaki
Abstract
Background
Xanthogranuloma of the sellar region is a rare entity. Its pathology is controversial and it is difficult to strictly differentiate it from craniopharyngioma or Rathke’s cyst.
Case presentation
We report a case of xanthogranuloma accompanied by growth hormone deficiency in an 11-year-old girl. She did not show any other pituitary hormone deficiency or neurological symptoms before operation. The preoperative diagnosis was craniopharyngioma, but histological findings showed small areas of epithelium. Thus, the final diagnosis was xanthogranuloma. Xanthogranuloma is an important cause of growth delay. We reviewed 16 cases reported after 2000, and included our case, of xanthogranuloma in children.
Conclusions
Endocrinological symptoms are often regarded as one of the few apparent symptoms in xanthogranuloma compared with craniopharyngioma. Therefore, we should follow up carefully and accumulate cases.
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Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- The associations between mental health, health-related quality of life and insulin pump therapy among children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes
- Achieving target levels for vascular risk parameters in Polish school-age children with type 1 diabetes – a single center study
- Adipocyte aquaporin 7 (AQP7) expression in lean children and children with obesity. Possible involvement in molecular mechanisms of childhood obesity
- Use of complementary and alternative medicine in patients with inherited metabolic disease
- Are breast milk adipokines affected by maternal dietary factors?
- Comparison of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between radioimmunoassay and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in infants and postpartum women
- Reference intervals for neonatal thyroid function tests in the first 7 days of life
- Treatment outcomes in pediatric differentiated thyroid carcinoma
- Seasonality of month of birth in children and adolescents with autoimmune thyroiditis: a continuing conundrum
- Follow-up in children with non-obese and non-autoimmune subclinical hypothyroidism
- Glucose intolerance in children with cystic fibrosis: a developing country’s perspective
- Letter to the Editor
- A patient with classical galactosemia is graduated with a university degree
- Case Reports
- Prepubertal gynaecomastia in a boy with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: managing the aromatase overexpression
- Hypogammaglobulinemia and imaging features in a patient with infantile free sialic acid storage disease (ISSD) and a novel mutation in the SLC17A5 gene
- Xanthogranuloma of the sellar region accompanied by growth hormone deficiency: case report and literature review
- A case of Graves’ disease associated with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and leukocytoclastic vasculitis
