✓ An abscessed Rathke's cleft cyst was removed in a 50-year-old woman who had had headaches and episodic fever for 3 years and had been on intermittent methotrexate therapy for psoriasis for 4 years. There was clinical and laboratory evidence of panhypopituitarism. Erosion of the sella turcica was present. The patient has remained asymptomatic on replacement therapy. A brief review of abscess formation in the region of the pituitary gland is presented.
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