Prolonged Postoperative Pyrexia and Transient Nonnephrogenic Vasopressin-Analogue-Resistant Polyuria following Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Resection of an Infundibular Epidermoid Cyst

Table 1

Characteristics of previous and current case reports of pituitary stalk epidermoid cysts.

Paper	Age/sex	Presentation	Imaging characteristics	Operative approach	Postoperative status
Costa et al., 2013 [10]	27-year-old female	Amenorrhea, galactorrhea, polyuria, and polydipsia	Mixed signal, bilobed rim and enhancing cystic lesion	Endoscopic endonasal extended transsphenoidal	Not reported
Nakassa et al., 2017 [11]	54-year-old female	Headache, visual disturbance, polyuria, and polydipsia	Mixed signal and nonenhancing cystic lesion	Endoscopic endonasal	Persistent DI and subjective visual fields improvement
McCormack et al., 2018 [12]	36-year-old female	Headache and visual disturbance	Multilocular T1 hypointense, T2 hyperintense, and rim-enhancing lesion	Endoscopic endonasal extended transsphenoidal	Transient DI
Montaser et al., 2018 [13]	49-year-old female	Headache	Mixed signal and nonenhancing sellar/suprasellar cyst extending into the third ventricle	Endoscopic endonasal extended transsphenoidal	Persistent DI
Khan et al., 2019 [14]	55-year-old male	Decreased visual acuity	Mixed signal and rim-enhancing cystic lesion	Endoscopic endonasal extended transsphenoidal	Panhypopituitarism and subjective visual fields improvement
Lee et al., 2020 [15]	63-year-old male	Polydipsia and polyuria	T2 hyperintense and rim-enhancing cystic lesion	Pretemporal craniotomy	Persistent DI
Current case	59-year-old male	Headache and visual disturbance	Rim-enhancing cystic lesion	Endoscopic endonasal extended transsphenoidal	Panhypopituitarism, persistent DI, and visual fields improvement