Treatment of pituitary tumors is similar to that of sporadic tumors; it consists of the use of drugs, such as dopaminergic agonists for prolactinoma and octreotide for somatotropinomas, or the ...

(1) The first phase of diabetes insipidus is initiated by a partial or complete pituitary stalk section, which severs the connections between the cell bodies of AVP-secreting neurons in the ...

Surgery is also called an operation. It is a procedure where a specialist doctor called a surgeon removes or repairs some of the tissue in your body. Normally you have an anaesthetic before you have ...

Introduction: Pituitary stalk (PS) abscess has not been previously ... thickened PS with ring enhancement. The patient underwent transsphenoidal surgery. Direct observation during surgery revealed a ...

Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China Objective: Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a common intracranial hemorrhagic condition ...

This is probably the first case of a prenatally diagnosed transsphenoidal meningoencephalocoele. A protruding cystic mouth mass was detected at 21 weeks’ gestation in conjunction with a palatal defect ...

Central hypothyroidism is a rare disorder that occurs when an otherwise healthy thyroid doesn't produce enough hormones due to problems that originate in the pituitary gland, the hypothalamus, or both ...