Pituitary Apoplexy May Be Mistaken for Temporal Arteritis
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2019 Pituitary apoplexy is a rare endocrine emergency, characterized by a sudden increase in pituitary gland volume secondary to acute ischaemic infarction or haemorrhage of the pituitary gland, usually in the presence of a pituitary adenoma.
Bárbara Pedro +2 more
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Purification and cultivation of human pituitary growth hormone secreting cells [PDF]
A multiphase study was conducted to examine the properties of growth hormone cells. Topics investigated included: (1) to determine if growth hormone (GH) cells contained within the rat pituitary gland can be separated from the other hormone producing ...
Hymer, W. C.
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Extragonadal LH/hCG action-Not yet time to rewrite textbooks [PDF]
, 2007 Gonadotropins are indispensable in both sexes in the regulation of gonadal sex steroid production and gametogenesis. In addition to their well-established classical actions, numerous recent publications have indicated the presence and function of ...
Ahtiainen, Petteri +5 more
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Surgical management of Rathke's cleft cysts [PDF]
, 2006 Journal ArticleRathke's cleft cysts (RCCs) are non-neoplastic cysts that arise from glandular rests of Rathke's cleft in the area of the intermediate lobe of the pituitary gland.
Couldwell, William T., Weiss, Martin H.
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Does an Analysis of the Pulsatile Secretion Pattern of Adrenocorticotropin and Cortisol Predict the Result of Transsphenoidal Surgery in Cushing’s Disease. [PDF]
, 1993 The endocrinological, surgical, and histological findings of patients with ACTH-dependent Cushing's disease were correlated with the pulsatile secretion pattern of ACTH and cortisol and the outcome after transsphenoidal pituitary surgery.
Brabant, Georg +5 more
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Breast carcinoma with pituitary metastasis
Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2019 Background: Metastatic tumors are among the most common lesions in the brain. The pituitary gland is an uncommon site of metastasis for malignancies. Breast cancer is the most common primary neoplasm metastasizing to pituitary in women.
Gurjeet Singh Chowdhary, Purvesh Agrawal
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Timing of maternal exposure and fetal sex determine the effects of low-level chemical mixture exposure on the fetal neuroendocrine system in sheep [PDF]
, 2016 We have shown that continuous maternal exposure to the complex mixture of environmental chemicals (ECs) found in human biosolids (sewage sludge), disrupts mRNA expression of genes crucial for development and long-term regulation of hypothalamo-pituitary ...
Bellingham, M. +7 more
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COVID-19 induced hypercoagulability and its impact leading to pituitary apoplexy
Journal of the Pakistan Medical AssociationI am writing this letter to address an increasingly high-risk but under-explored complication of pituitary apoplexy in patients who have contracted COVID-19.
Muhammad Saad Shabbir +2 more
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Features of pituitary metastases surgery
Ендоваскулярна нейрорентгенохірургія, 2017 Objective – to improve the results of surgical treatment of patients with metastatic lesion of the pituitary gland. Materials and methods. The results of treatment of 35 patients operated on metastases of pituitary gland in the SI Romodanov ...
D.S. Teslenko +5 more
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Regulation of pituitary MT1 melatonin receptor expression by gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and early growth response factor-1 (Egr-1) : in vivo and in vitro studies [PDF]
, 2014 Copyright: © 2014 Bae et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are
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