A 24-year-old woman who was experiencing brief bouts of blindness every five minutes visited the doctor and discovered she ...

First, patients who undergo surgery in the suprasellar region often ... and their nerve terminals in the posterior pituitary gland, which prevents AVP secretion. (2) This first phase is followed ...

The Pituitary Center at Baylor Medicine treats a wide variety of conditions affecting the pituitary gland, including: Although surgery is often the first line of treatment for pituitary adenomas, ...

SURGEONS have continually sought an operative approach to pituitary tumors and to the normal pituitary gland that would be maximally effective, safe and innocuous. We have examined in detail the ...

traditional surgery. Adenomas are tumors that grow on the pituitary gland. Almost always benign (noncancerous), these occur in about 20% of people and in many cases are asymptomatic. Their ...

The pituitary gland is a pea-sized gland at the base of ... In rare cases, radiation therapy is used if medicine and surgery don't bring down prolactin levels. About 90% of people get tumor ...

Researchers from Cambridge and London have completed a study that is a world first of its kind and gives patients an important voice on future priorities.

Surgery is the most widely used method to ... the level of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH is made by your pituitary gland. It tells your thyroid gland to make thyroid hormones.

The trans-sphenoidal approach to pituitary surgery has been performed for some ... was used to distinguish residual tumor from normal gland and postoperative changes, permitting more precise ...

assistant professor of otolaryngology - head and neck surgery, Dr. Rod Foroozan, associate professor ophthalmology, and Dr. L. Steven Carpenter, clinical associate professor of radiology. "The ...