Headache is common among patients diagnosed with pituitary adenoma (PA). There are still controversies regarding the headache presentation, pathophysiology and outcome after treatment in these ...

Pituitary apoplexy is a rare but serious condition that occurs when there is sudden bleeding or infarction (tissue death due to lack of blood supply) in the pituitary gland, often associated with ...

However, when a tumor develops in the pituitary gland, it can disrupt this delicate hormonal balance, leading to various ...

The majority of pituitary gland conditions are attributed to growths or tumors in the pituitary gland. Hypopituitarism is a condition where the pituitary gland does not produce enough of one or ...

It produces hormones which control all of the other glands in the body. Pituitary adenomas are tiny lumps which grow within the pituitary gland. These can cause problems by producing extra hormones, ...

The gland sits at the base of the brain and is roughly the size and shape of a bean (Figure 1). The pituitary is directly under the optic nerve which transmits information from our eyes to our brains ...

This type of tumor is larger than a microprolactinoma but smaller than a giant prolactinoma. Your pituitary gland is a pea-size gland found at the base of your brain that secretes many hormones.

(3) After all of the AVP stored in the posterior pituitary gland has been released, a third phase of diabetes insipidus develops if >80-90% of the AVP-secreting neuronal cell bodies in the ...

At the Baylor Medicine Pituitary Center in Houston, Texas, we offer comprehensive and expert care for all pituitary-related disorders, including all tumors of the pituitary and sellar region.

A newly discovered line of communication between body muscle and the pituitary gland may play an unexpected role in female fertility, according to a new study. McGill University researchers found ...

Although a relatively rare phenomenon, lymphocytic hypophysitis can represent a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. This condition was initially thought to be an autoimmune phenomenon ...