MRI scans effectively diagnose pituitary tumors. However, older MRI machines may miss very small tumors. Learn more.

The use of intraoperative MRI, especially with transsphenoidal reoperations for invasive and noninvasive pituitary macroadenomas, leads to significantly higher “gross tumor resection” rates.

The pituitary gland rests in a saddle-shaped depression in the middle of the sphenoid bone called the sella turcica. This butterfly-shaped, unpaired bone is located towards the front of the skull ...

October 27, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — A pituitary anomaly on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can predict which children with optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) also have hypopituitarism, an ...

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GH peak after glucagon was <10 mcg/L in 20 patients with structural hypothalamic-pituitary abnormalities and >10 mcg/L in 28 patients with normal MRI; the researchers noted no significant clinical ...

Autopsy and imaging studies have shown that around 10% of adults may have pituitary microadenomas, which are small growths in the pituitary gland. These growths are often found incidentally during ...