Abstract

BackgroundPituicytoma is a rare pituitary non-neuroendocrine tumour. The awareness of pituitary non-neuroendocrine tumours has gradually increased over the past several decades, but the knowledge of some histological variants of the tumours is limited, particularly in clinicopathological significance. Here, we report a rare case of pituicytoma variant.Case presentationA 71-year-old man presented with sudden symptoms of stroke including urinary incontinence, weakness in right lower limb, and trouble speaking. Physical examinations showed a right facial paralysis. The radiological examinations eventually found a 1.7 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm sellar occupied lesion. After symptomatic treatment improved the symptoms, the patient underwent transsphenoidal resection of the pituitary mass. Histologically, the tumour contained hypocellular area and hypercellular area. The hypocellular area showed elongated spindle cells arranged in a fascicular pattern around small vessels and scattered Herring bodies; the hypercellular area showed a large number of pseudorosettes. Immunohistochemistrically, the tumour cells were positive for thyroid transcription factor-1, S100, and neuron-specific enolase. Neurofilament only showed a little positive in the hypocellular area, and silver impregnation was only noted in a perivascular distribution. The patient had no recurrence 4 months after the surgery.ConclusionsThe rare variant of pituicytoma has a favourable prognosis. Moreover, it needs to be distinguished pituicytomas with pseudorosettes from ependymomas because of different prognosis. Lastly, Herring bodies may occasionally be seen in the pituicytoma, which could be a potential diagnostic pitfall.

Highlights

  • Pituicytoma is a rare pituitary non-neuroendocrine tumour

  • The most common pituitary tumour is pituitary adenoma that is a neuroendocrine tumour, whereas pituitary non-neuroendocrine tumours are rare and include pituicytoma, spindle cell oncocytoma (SCO), granular cell tumour (GCT), and gangliocytoma according to the 2016 WHO classification of tumours of the central

  • To improve the awareness of the variants, we report a rare case of a pituicytoma with a biphasic pattern and admixed with scattered Herring bodies

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The rare variant of pituicytoma has a favourable prognosis. It needs to be distinguished pituicytomas with pseudorosettes from ependymomas because of different prognosis. Herring bodies may occasionally be seen in the pituicytoma, which could be a potential diagnostic pitfall

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