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Necrotizing Infundibuloneurohypophysitis: Case Report and Literature Review

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Authors are grateful to the Jarislowsky and Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundations for their continuous support and to Mrs. Denise Chase of Mayo Clinic for her excellent secretarial assistance.

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    Anick Nater & Michael Cusimano

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe and Clinica Medellin, Calle 54 # 46-27. Cons 501, Medellin, Colombia

    Luis V. Syro

  3. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Fabio Rotondo, Kalman Kovacs & Eva Horvath

  4. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Bernd W. Scheithauer

  5. Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Medellin, Colombia

    Veronica Abad & Carolina Jaramillo

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Nater, A., Syro, L.V., Rotondo, F. et al. Necrotizing Infundibuloneurohypophysitis: Case Report and Literature Review. Endocr Pathol 23, 205–211 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12022-012-9214-y

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