The pituitary gland or pituitary gland is an endocrine gland that secretes hormones responsible for regulating homeostasis including the tropic hormones that regulate the function of other glands of the endocrine system, depending in part on the hypothalamus, which in turn regulates the secretion of some hormones. It is a complex gland that is housed in a bone space called the Turkish sphenoid bone chair, located at the base of the skull, in the middle cerebral fossa, which connects with the hypothalamus through the pituitary stem or pituitary stalk. It has an oval shape with an anteroposterior diameter of 8 mm, transverse of 12 mm and 6 mm vertically, on average it weighs 500 milligrams in the adult man, 600 mg in the woman and in which they have had several deliveries, up to 700 mg. 2
