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¹Çukurova University School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery, Adana
²Çukurova University School of Medicine Department of Pathology, Adana This report is of a patient with an isolated sellar tuberculoma with suprasellar extension in association with thickening of the pituitary stalk who presented with signs and symptoms of hypopituitarism. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a sellar mass with suprasellar extension associated with thickening of the pituitary stalk. Endocrinological parameters indicated hypopituitarism. The patient underwent a transsphenoidal procedure. The pathological diagnosis was of a typical structure of tuberculoma. if a pituitary tumor with suprasellar extension in association with the thickening of the pituitary stalk is suspected, the possibility of sellar tuberculoma must be considered in the differential diagnosis of nonsecreting sellar masses, even when no history of tuberculosis exists. Keywords : Granulomatous hypophysitis, pituitary stalk, sellar tuberculoma