Abstract
THAT there remains a small piece of pituitary tissue in the pharyngeal mucosa, II designated as the pharyngeal pituitary gland, has been demonstrated (1, 2). JL Melchionna and Moore (3) proved its presence in 51 out of 54 cases studied. All of these authors discussed a possible physiological function of the pharyngeal pituitary gland, but came to no definite conclusions. Haberfeld (I) reported no change in the pharyngeal pituitary of five pregnant women. Melchionna and Moore (3) observed only epithelial cells in thepharyngeal pituitary of a pregnant woman. Christeller (2) reported two cases of compression of the pituitary by tumor in which there was no compensatory hypertrophy of the pharyngeal pituitary. Indicative of possible activity are the cases of Christeller and of Melchionna and Moore in which prominent eosinophilic cells in the pharyngeal pituitary were associated with Frohlien's syndrome and with teratoma of the testis.
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