Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: A pituitary adenoma is directly assumed to originate from anterior pituitary. It is expected that pathologies of posterior hypophysis cause diabates insipitus (DI). However recently posterior pituitary tumors (PPTs) are also declared which are not associated with DI in contrast to what is expected. Rather they have a clinical and radiologic presentation akin to anterior pituitary adenomas. Differentiation of two conditions is mainly based on pathologic immunohyst...

Introduction: Hypophysitis is a rare condition characterized by inflamation of the pituitary gland, causing mass effect and hypopituitarism. The incidence is estimated to be 1in9 million/year. The diagnosis of hypophysitis is based on clinical and laboratory findings, imaging methods and histopathology in selected cases. The aim of the treatment is to eliminate the compression effects of the mass and to treat hypopituitarsim. The first choice in medical treatment is immunsupre...