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Pituitary disease

endocrine disease

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ7199538 ↗
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A pituitary disease is a disorder primarily affecting the pituitary gland.

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The main disorders involving the pituitary gland are:

Overproduction or underproduction of a pituitary hormone will affect the respective end-organ. For example, insufficient production (hyposecretion) of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) in the pituitary gland will cause hypothyroidism, while overproduction (hypersecretion) of TSH will cause hyperthyroidism. Thyroidisms caused by the pituitary gland are less common though, accounting for less than 10% of all hypothyroidism cases and much less than 1% of hyperthyroidism cases.

See also

Hypophysitis, inflammation of the pituitary gland.

Autoimmune hypophysitis (or lymphocytic hypophysitis), inflammation of the pituitary gland due to autoimmunity.

Nelson's syndrome, may occur after surgical removal of both adrenal glands, an out-dated method of treating Cushing's disease.

Pituitary tumour, a tumor of the pituitary gland.

Pituitary adenoma, a noncancerous tumor of the pituitary gland.

Pituicytoma, a rare brain tumor.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pituitary disease” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.