The pituitary gland, located at the base of the brain, secretes hormones that control vital bodily functions and also regulates the activity of other ...

Panhypopituitarism is a rare condition in which the pituitary gland stops producing sufficient amounts of pituitary hormones. Learn about causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and more.

Researchers have successfully converted human pluripotent stem cells into purified pituitary cells that aggregated into hormone-secreting organoids. As reported June 8 in the journal Stem Cell ...

Your posterior pituitary stores and releases hormones that play roles in water regulation, milk production, and childbirth, among other things.

Pituitary cancer is a cancerous tumor that begins in the pituitary gland. Doctors may find pituitary cancer if it spreads to other areas of the body. Learn more.

Pituitary gland disorders occur when the pituitary gland produces too little or too much of certain hormones. Learn more about pituitary disorders here.

Keywords: pituitary macroadenoma, ectopic posterior pituitary hyperintense signal, magnetic resonance imaging, diagnosis, sellar lesion Citation: Luo Y-L, Gu F, Fan H-Q, Du J-H, Yu Y, Liu L-K and Liao ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving medical imaging by using the massive computing abilities of machine learning to mine body scans.

In conclusion, FAST1.2 MRI protocol was useful to investigate patients with short stature allowing more confident recognition of regional anatomy of the hypothalamic-pituitary region and depicting ...

Irradiated adults with pituitary adenoma or craniopharyngioma are at increased risk of second brain tumours, although this risk is considerably lower than previously reported in studies using general ...

A Closer Look at the Master Gland The pituitary gland is just below the middle of the brain, at the level of the eyes. It used to be called the “master gland” because it secretes the hormones ...