SELLAR TUBERCULOMA - REPORT OF 2 CASES

Hypophyseal tuberculomas are exceptionally rare. We report two patient s with sellar tuberculoma but with no evidence of concurrent extrasell ar disease. Although the lesion is often mistaken for adenoma, there a re characteristic radiological features: intense enhancement on contra st CT and thickening of the pituitary stalk on MRI in 86% of cases. Ac curate diagnosis is important because pituitary tuberculoma is curable .