Where is the Pituitary Gland?

[abominable]

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Can someone help me find the Pituitary Gland? Does the MRI show it?

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5619/picture9yb.png

 

[typhoonegator]

I'm not used to looking at zoomed-in, closely cropped single MRI frames. Given that I can see the globe of one of the eyes, I don't think this image is at midline.

Here is the pituitary:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_806Og7pA_...ABo/mWO-Lr8eVdc/s1600-h/Pituitary+Adenoma.jpg

If you are asking for help reading your own MRI, you are in violation of the SDN TOS. Don't do it.

 

[abominable]

Nah, it's not mine =)

Cheers.

 

[danielmd06]

The pituitary is in the brain. Cheers.

 

[95439]

The pituitary is in the brain. Cheers.

Actually, isn't the pituitary considered an endocrine organ and therefore not considered part of the CNS?

Anal-retentively yours,
bblue

 

[danielmd06]

Actually, isn't the pituitary considered an endocrine organ and therefore not considered part of the CNS?

Anal-retentively yours,
bblue

👍 I'm starting to like you more and more.

It's connected to the hypothalamus, and I've been taught to consider it part of the nervous system and endocrine system together.

You consider the eyes to be part of the nervous system? 😀

 

[PhakeDoc]

You consider the eyes to be part of the nervous system? 😀

I do. And as far as the pituitary goes (I honestly can't remember the exact development...been a long time), but there's the neurohypophysis and the adenohypophysis.

 

[mmmcdowe]

👍 I'm starting to like you more and more.

It's connected to the hypothalamus, and I've been taught to consider it part of the nervous system and endocrine system together.

You consider the eyes to be part of the nervous system? 😀

Yeah, my impression was that the Post Pit was considered to be CNS and the anterior pit comes from the same tissues as the mouth and is an actual endocrine gland. The post pit secreting cells are just the axon terminals of the supraoptic and paraventricular cell bodies of the hypothalamus, right?

 

[Mattchiavelli]

The post pit secreting cells are just the axon terminals of the supraoptic and paraventricular cell bodies of the hypothalamus, right?

Yeah, the posterior pit dumps peptide hormones right into the circulation. Patients with head injuries (motor vehicle accidents and shaken baby syndrome are two that come to mind) can get diabetes insipidus from lack of AVP secretion due to neuronal injury.

Also, if that MRI is showing a pituitary then the patient is a cyclops.

 

[RAD345]

your Image if far lateral, you cannot see pit gland on this section.

 

[476515678234896]

Can someone help me find the Pituitary Gland? Does the MRI show it?

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5619/picture9yb.png

 

[Wesco]

I was taught both pit and hypothalamus are neuro-endocrine glands.