Laboratory evaluation with a serum prolactin for small tumors is cost effective ... MRI was performed and showed a 5-mm lesion in the pituitary gland consistent with a microadenoma.

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, ...

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

Elevated serum prolactin levels can be a symptom of either prolactin-secreting tumors (macroprolactinomas) or nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas that disrupt the dopaminergic inhibition of ...

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 ...

(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.