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DEVELOPMENT & STRUCTURE OF THE PITUITARY GLAND DR TATHEER ZAHRA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ANATOMY PITUITARY GLAND/ HYPOPHYSIS CEREBRI Nomenclature Master gland Size Shape Weight Capsule Location Relations ANTERIOR POSTERIOR SUPERIOR INFERIOR LATERAL • Duramater • Duramater • Diaphragma sellae • Dural floor of the fossa • Duramater • Sphenoidal air sinuses • Dorsum sallae • Sphenoidal air sinuses • Basilar artery • Pons • Optic chiasma • 3rd ventricle • Intercavernous sinus • Body of sphenoid • Sphenoidal air sinuses • Cavernous sinus NEUROVASCULAR SUPPLY Venous drainage Superior & inferior hypophyseal veins Cavernous sinus Nerve supply ~ Postsynaptic fibers of ANS (Vasomotor to Ant. Lobe), Hypothalamic nuclei (Post. Lobe) Several superior hypophyseal arteries Inferior hypophyseal artery Primary capillary plexus Secondary capillary plexus Fenestrated capillaries Sinusoidal capillaries CONNECTIONS OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS WITH PITUITARY GLAND HYPOTHALAMOHYPOPHYSEAL TRACT HYPOPHYSEAL PORTAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT OF THE PITUITARY GLAND ADENOHYPOPHYSIS • ECTODERM OF THE STOMODEUM OROPHARYNX/ RATHKE’S POUCH NEUROHYPOPHYSIS • NEUROECTODERM OF THE FLOOR OF THE 3RD VENTRICLE/ DIENCEPHALON 3RD WEEK 5TH WEEK 6TH WEEK HYPOPHYSEAL DEFECTS Pharyngeal Hypophysis Craniopharyngiomas Basipharyngeal Canal Microadenoma (< 1cm in diameter) Macroadenoma (> 1cm in diameter) Mechanical effects of tumors ~ Neurological defects, Bitemporal hemianopia (Tunnel vision), Headache, Epistaxis, CSF Rhinorrhea, Hydrocephalus etc. Treatment options ~ Medication, Surgery, Radiotherapy, Combination SURGICAL APPROACHES TRANS-SPHENOIDAL APPROACH (via orbit or nasal septum) CRANIOTOMY FOR SUB-FRONTAL APPROACH CRANIOTOMY FOR TRANSCAVERNOUS APPROACH LE FORT MAXILLOTOMY INTRAOPERATIVE MRI (IMRI) TRANS-SPHENOIDAL APPROACH Through orbit: Via ethmoidal air cells after raising the periosteum from the medial wall of the orbit Through nasal septum: *By elevating the nasal mucosa from the nasal septum & removing the septum (the nasal cavity itself is not entered) *Maxilla-premaxilla (Cottle) approach by preserving the caudal end of the nasal septum & the anterior nasal spine CRANIOTOMY FOR SUB-FRONTAL APPROACH CRANIOTOMY FOR TRANS-CAVERNOUS APPROACH Trans-cavernous Approach LE FORT MAXILLOTOMY INTRAOPERATIVE MRI (IMRI) Pre operative: Polytomograms of sella & sphenoid sinus Bilateral carotid angiography CT scan Pneumoencephalography Intra-operative: Operating microscope Intra-operative x-ray control with image intensifier ORGANIZATION ADENOHYPOPHYSIS (Glandular part) Pars tuberalis Pars distalis-pars anterior Pars intermedia NEUROHYPOPHYSIS (Nervous part) Pars nervosa Infundibulum (Infundibular stem & Median eminence) ADENOHYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS PARS DISTALIS PARS INTERMEDIA PARS DISTALIS 75% of the mass of the hypophysis Highly vascular Common stains allow recognition of 3 cell types Folliculostellate cells Chromophobes ~ 50 % 2 types of chromophils Acidophils ~ 35-40 % Basophils ~ 10-15 % ACIDOPHILS 50% SOMATOTROPES/ GH CELLS 15-20% MAMMOTROPES/ PRL CELLS REGULATION OF SECRETION SOMATOTROPES/ GH CELLS MAMMOTROPES/ PRL CELLS HYPOTHALAMUS VIP GHRH TRH DOPAMINE SOMATOTROPES PROLACTIN GH BASOPHILS 10% GONADOTROPES/ FSH & LH CELLS 5% THYROTROPES/ TSH CELLS 15-20% CORTICOTROPES/ ACTH CELLS Pars distalis: Crystal scarlet, aniline blue & Martius yellow REGULATION OF SECRETION GONADOTROPES/ FSH & LH CELLS HYPOTHALAMUS CORTICOTROPES / ACTH CELLS HYPOTHALAMUS THYROTROPES / TSH CELLS HYPOTHALAMUS CRH GnRH TRH CORTICOTROPES GONADOTOTROPES THYROTROPES POMC FSH & LH ACTH TSH PARS TUBERALIS Folliculostellate cells Basophils Corticotropes Gonadotropes PARS INTERMEDIA Folliculostellate cells Chromophobes Basophils Corticotropes Black arrow Rathke's Pouch Blue arrow – Adenohypophysis Red arrow – Neurohypophysis SUMMARY OF SECRETORY CELLS OF ADENOHYPOPHYSIS PRH + PIH - SUMMARY OF REGULATION OF SECRETION OF ADENOHYPOPHYSIS NEOROHYPOPHYSIS NEUROHYPOPHYSIS INFUNDIBULUM/ NEURAL STALK MEDIAL EMINENCE PARS NERVOSA STEM INFUNDIBULUM/ PITUITARY STALK PARS NERVOSA HERRING BODIES E/M of Herring bodies of rat posterior lobe HORMONES OF THE PARS NERVOSA VASSOPRESSIN BY SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS OXYTOCIN BY PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS CONTROL OF SECRETION FACTORS AFFECTING SECRETION: Hypertonicity Hypovolemia a. Osmotic stimuli b. Volume effect c. Other stimuli: Osmoreceptors Baroreceptors Pain Nausea Surgical stress Drugs:Morphine Hypothalamus Nicotine Barbiturate Alcohol Thirst Opiate antagonist REFERENCES The Developing Human, Clinically Oriented Embryology, By KEITH L. MOORE - Latest Edition LANGMAN’S Embryology, By T.W.SADLER - Latest Edition LAST’S Anatomy Regional & Applied, By CHUMMY S. SINNATAMBY - Latest Edition Clinically Oriented Anatomy, By KEITH L. MOORE - Latest Edition Clinical Anatomy By Regions, By RICHARD S. SNELL - Latest Edition Basic Histology Text & Atlas, By LUIZ CARLOS JUNQUEIRA & JOSé CARNEIRO - Latest Edition