Incidental pituitary adenomas are often found on imaging studies or after abnormal endocrine hormone levels. A 35-year-old woman is seen in the outpatient clinic for evaluation of an incidental ...

Pituitary apoplexy describes any condition in which the pituitary gland becomes infarcted or hemorrhage occurs. The fundamental cause of this condition is a transient or sustained alteration in blood ...

The main treatment option for pituitary tumors involves surgical removal of the tumor. The two types of pituitary tumor surgery are transsphenoidal surgery and craniotomy. Transsphenoidal surgery is ...

Pituitary tumors (adenomas) are abnormal growths that develop within tissues of the pituitary gland, a hormone-regulating gland at the base of your brain. While most of these tumors are noncancerous ...

A person with pituitary cancer might experience headaches, diabetes insipidus, optic nerve damage, and more. However, those with the disease can be asymptomatic. Most pituitary tumors are noncancerous ...

A pituitary tumor is a growth that develops in the pituitary gland. It can affect your vision, but it isn’t located in your eye. Pituitary tumors are common, but most people never even know they have ...

Pituitary adenomas can occur due to genetic alterations. The known genes involved with pituitary tumours can be seen on Figure 1. Figure 1: Genetic aspects of pituitary tumours The most recently ...

A study has confirmed that some vials of a hormone used in discontinued medical treatments contained seeds of a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease, and are able to seed amyloid pathology in ...

A small autopsy study has raised the possibility of human-to-human iatrogenic transmission of amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology, similar to that seen in Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). The result supports the ...

Pituitary apoplexy is a rare and life-threatening disorder often requiring emergency neurosurgical intervention to preserve vision and prevent cerebral herniation syndrome. Infarction or hemorrhage of ...