Table of Contents

THE NORMAL PITUITARY GLAND

CONGENITAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

ECTOPIC ADENOHYPOPHYSIS

PITUITARY APLASIA/HYPOPLASIA

PITUITARY DUPLICATION OR DYSTOPIA

EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME

CYSTIC LESIONS

RATHKE'S CLEFT CYSTS

ARACHNOID CYSTS

DERMOID AND EPIDERMOID CYSTS

INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS

LYMPHOCYTIC HYPOPHYSITIS

GRANULOMATOUS HYPOPHYSITIS

XANTHOMATOUS HYPOPHYSITIS

SECONDARY HYPOPHYSITIS

VASCULAR DISORDERS

PITUITARY INFARCTION

SHEEHAN'S SYNDROME

PITUITARY APOPLEXY

METABOLIC DISORDERS

AMYLOIDISIS

HEMOSIDEROSIS

HYPERPLASIA

PRIMARY TUMORS OF ADENOHYPOPHYSEAL CELLS

CLASSIFICATION OF PITUITARY ADENOMAS

FUNCTIONING SOMATOTROPH ADENOMAS

Drug Effects

FUNCTIONING LACTOTROPH ADENOMAS

FUNCTIONING THYROTROPH ADENOMAS

FUNCTIONING CORTICOTROPH ADENOMAS

FUNCTIONING GONADOTROPH ADENOMAS

CLINICALLY NON-FUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMAS

PLURIHORMONAL PITUITARY ADENOMAS

PITUITARY CARCINOMA

OTHER PRIMARY TUMORS OF THE SELLAR REGION

CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA

NEURONAL TUMORS

GLIOMAS

MENINGIOMAS

GRANULAR CELL TUMORS

CHORDOMAS

SCHWANNOMAS

GERM CELL TUMORS

HEMATOLOGIC TUMORS

LANGERHANS' CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS

MESENCHYMAL TUMORS

METASTATIC TUMORS TO THE HYPOPHYSIS AND SELLA TURCICA

MISCELLANEOUS LESIONS