Question

The nurse is assisting the primary healthcare provider, who is examining the client's skull radiograph. an abnormality in the endocrine gland situated in a depression of the sphenoid bone is suspected. which hormone release is most probably affected?

Answer 1

This is the Pituitary Gland which controls other glands such as the adrenal gland as well as secretes its own set of hormones is closest to the sphenoid bone. There are two lobes, anterior and posterior. The spheroid bone surface is immediately below the pituitary gland posterior. The posterior of the pituitary gland will release ADH or anti-diuretic hormone as well as oxytocin (assuming a female).