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																		 Pituitary Diseases
 
																		 
																		
																	 
																		 
																		
																	 
																			
																					
	"Pituitary Diseases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				Disorders involving either the ADENOHYPOPHYSIS or the NEUROHYPOPHYSIS. These diseases usually manifest as hypersecretion or hyposecretion of PITUITARY HORMONES. Neoplastic pituitary masses can also cause compression of the OPTIC CHIASM and other adjacent structures.
    
			 
				
				
					
						| Descriptor ID | D010900 |  
						| MeSH Number(s) | C10.228.140.617.738 C19.700 |  
						| Concept/Terms | Pituitary DiseasesPituitary DiseasesDisease, PituitaryDiseases, PituitaryPituitary DiseasePituitary Gland DiseasesDisease, Pituitary GlandDiseases, Pituitary GlandPituitary Gland DiseaseHypophyseal DisordersDisorder, HypophysealDisorders, HypophysealHypophyseal DisorderPituitary DisordersDisorder, PituitaryDisorders, PituitaryPituitary Disorder
 Anterior Pituitary DiseasesAnterior Pituitary DiseasesAnterior Pituitary DiseaseDisease, Anterior PituitaryDiseases, Anterior PituitaryPituitary Disease, AnteriorPituitary Diseases, AnteriorAdenohypophyseal DiseasesAdenohypophyseal DiseaseDisease, AdenohypophysealDiseases, Adenohypophyseal
 Posterior Pituitary DiseasesPosterior Pituitary DiseasesDisease, Posterior PituitaryDiseases, Posterior PituitaryPituitary Disease, PosteriorPituitary Diseases, PosteriorPosterior Pituitary DiseaseNeurohypophyseal DiseasesDisease, NeurohypophysealDiseases, NeurohypophysealNeurohypophyseal Disease
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 | 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |  | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 
 
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				Below are the most recent publications written about "Pituitary Diseases" by people in Profiles. 		
					
								
								Nellan A, Bodlak A, Mirsky DM, Mulcahy Levy J, Garrington TP, Foreman NK, Gilani A, Hayashi M. ddPCR Analysis Reveals BRAF V600E Mutations Are Infrequent in Isolated Pituitary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Patients. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2020 12 04; 79(12):1313-1319.
								Burns J, Policeni B, Bykowski J, Dubey P, Germano IM, Jain V, Juliano AF, Moonis G, Parsons MS, Powers WJ, Rath TJ, Schroeder JW, Subramaniam RM, Taheri MR, Whitehead MT, Zander D, Corey A. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Neuroendocrine Imaging. J Am Coll Radiol. 2019 May; 16(5S):S161-S173.
								Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Lillehei KO, Hankinson TC. Review of xanthomatous lesions of the sella. Brain Pathol. 2017 05; 27(3):377-395.
								Lee JT, Kingdom TT, Smith TL, Setzen M, Brown S, Batra PS. Practice patterns in endoscopic skull base surgery: survey of the American Rhinologic Society. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2014 Feb; 4(2):124-31.
								McCabe MJ, Gaston-Massuet C, Tziaferi V, Gregory LC, Alatzoglou KS, Signore M, Puelles E, Gerrelli D, Farooqi IS, Raza J, Walker J, Kavanaugh SI, Tsai PS, Pitteloud N, Martinez-Barbera JP, Dattani MT. Novel FGF8 mutations associated with recessive holoprosencephaly, craniofacial defects, and hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Oct; 96(10):E1709-18.
								Flierl MA, Stahel PF, Rittirsch D, Huber-Lang M, Niederbichler AD, Hoesel LM, Touban BM, Morgan SJ, Smith WR, Ward PA, Ipaktchi K. Inhibition of complement C5a prevents breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and pituitary dysfunction in experimental sepsis. Crit Care. 2009; 13(1):R12.
								Kerr J, Wood W, Ridgway EC. Basic science and clinical research advances in the pituitary transcription factors: Pit-1 and Prop-1. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2008 Aug; 15(4):359-63.
								Kappy MS, Drake A, Gao D, Ratliff R. Assessing adrenal function in primary care settings with a single sample subcutaneous glucagon test. J Pediatr. 2006 Nov; 149(5):682-6.
								Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Lillehei KO, Stears JC. The pathologic, surgical, and MR spectrum of Rathke cleft cysts. Surg Neurol. 1995 Jul; 44(1):19-26; discussion 26-7.
								Reusch JE, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Lillehei KO, Rappe D, Gutierrez-Hartmann A. Preoperative diagnosis of lymphocytic hypophysitis (adenohypophysitis) unresponsive to short course dexamethasone: case report. Neurosurgery. 1992 Feb; 30(2):268-72. | 
																	
																		
																			
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