pituitary fossa

Peter Brown declared that the remains of the pituitary fossa were very poorly preserved and no meaningful measurement was possible.

Studying computer tomography scans of LB1's pituitary fossa, she came to the conclusion that it is not larger than usual.

The pituitary fossa, in which the pituitary gland sits, is situated in the sphenoid bone in the middle cranial fossa at the base of the brain.

The American surgeon Harvey Cushing studied Byrne's bones in 1909 and found that Byrne had had a pituitary tumor based on an enlarged pituitary fossa.

They wrote that various features found on the fossils, such as enlarged pituitary fossa, unusually straight and untwisted tops of the upper arm bone and relatively thick limbs, are signs of this diagnosis.

The excellent soft tissue resolution and multiplanar capability of MRI are of particular value in imaging the pituitary fossa, where the relationship of tumours to the optic chiasm and other important surrounding structures can be shown.