folliculostellate_cell [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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A Folliculostellate (FS) cell is a type of non-endocrine cell found in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.

[[Pituicytoma]] is a rare [[glia]]l [[sella]]r/[[suprasellar]] [[neoplasm]] arising in the [[neurohypophysis]] with a possible origin from the [[folliculostellate cell]]s of the [[adenohypophysis]] 
((Phillips JJ, Misra A, Feuerstein BG, Kunwar S, Tihan T. Pituicytoma: Characterization of a unique neoplasm by histology, immunohistochemistry, ultrastructure, and array-based comparative genomic hybridization. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2010;134:1063-9.))
((Koutourousiou M, Gardner PA, Kofler JK, Fernandez-Miranda JC, Snyderman CH,
Lunsford LD. Rare infundibular tumors: clinical presentation, imaging findings,
and the role of endoscopic endonasal surgery in their management. J Neurol Surg B
Skull Base. 2013 Feb;74(1):1-11. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1329619. Epub 2012 Dec 31.
PubMed PMID: 24436883; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3699169.)).