Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setion I Hypothalamic
  • Pituitary Function
  • 1. Pituitary development / Jacques Drouin
  • 2. Hypothalamic regulation of anterior pituitary function / Anat Ben-Shlomo and Shlomo Melmed
  • 3. Adrenocorticotrophin / Carmen L. Soto-Rivera and Joseph A. Majzoub
  • 4. Growth hormone / Vivien S. Bonert and Shlomo Melmed
  • 5. Prolactin / Nadine Binart
  • 6. Thyroid-stimulating hormone / Virginia D. Sarapura and Mary H. Samuel
  • 7. Gonadotrophin hormones / Ursula B. Kaiser
  • 8. The posterior pituitary / Daniel G. Bichet
  • Section II Hypothalamic-Pituitary Disorders
  • 9. The hypothalamus / Andrea Giustina, Stefano Frara, Alfio Spina and Pietro Mortini
  • 10. Anterior pituitary failure / John D. Carmichael
  • 11. Pituitary dysfunction in systemic disorders / Maria Fleseriu
  • 12. Drugs and pituitary function / Maria Fleseriu
  • 13. The pituitary gland in pregnancy / Andrea Glezer and Marcello D. Bronstein
  • 14. Psychiatric disease in hypothalamic-pituitary disorders / Caroline Sievers and Gunter K. Stalla
  • Section III Pituitary Tumors
  • 15. Acromegaly / Shlomo Melmed
  • 16. Prolactinoma / Phillipe Chanson and Dominique Maiter
  • 17. Cushing disease / John D.C Newell-Rice
  • 18. Thyrotrophin-secreting pituitary tumors / Yona Greenman
  • 19. Nonfunctioning and gonadotrophin-secreting adenomas
  • 20. Atypical pituitary adenomas / Daniel A. Donoho and Gabriel Zada
  • 21. Genetics of pituitary tumor syndromes / Adrian F. Daly and Albert Beckers
  • 22. Nonpituitary sellar masses / Luis V. Syro, Fabio Rotondo, Olga Moshkin and Kalman Kovacs
  • Section IV Pituitary Procedures
  • 23. Pituitary imaging / Marcel Maya and Barry D. Pressman
  • 24. Pituitary surgery / Rudolf Fahlbusch and Michael Buchfelder.