Hypothalamic lesions
Dr Yuranga Weerakkody and Dr Frank Gaillard et al.
The hypothalamus is the location of many specific lesions as well as hosting more traditional lesions.
Developmental
- craniopharyngioma
- supra sellar germinoma
- hypothalamic hamartoma
- lipoma
- dermoid cyst
- epidermoid cyst
- arachnoid cyst
- Rathke's cleft cyst
- colloid cyst
- ectopic posterior pituitary
Neoplasms
Primary
- hypothalamic-chiasmatic glioma
- ganglioglioma
- choristoma
- perisellar meningioma
- haemangioblastoma
- cavernoma
- pituicytoma
Secondary
- lymphoma
- leukaemia
- metastases
Granulomatous / Inflammatory
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- sarcoidosis
- Langerhan's cell histiocytosis (LCH)
- tuberculosis
- neurosyphilis
- lymphocytic hypophysitis
Direct involvement from neighbouring masses
- meningioma
- pituitary macroadenoma
- aneurysms
- primary brain tumours
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