A 36-year-old man with a 6-month history of asthenia, impotence, loss of libido, polyuria, and polydipsia attended our department; he also reported needing to wake up twice at night to urinate and ...

the pituitary stalk. [1] This condition remains rather poorly defined and includes a spectrum of several types of disease processes that need to be differentiated. Because patients with ...

(1) The first phase of diabetes insipidus is initiated by a partial or complete pituitary stalk section, which severs the connections between the cell bodies of AVP-secreting neurons in the ...

was implanted in the subcortex, the hypophyseal stalk being left hanging out of the wound on the surface of the brain”. The patient remained somnolent, and despite daily injections of pituitary ...