… Pituitary surgery, perhaps more than other area of neurosurgery, requires careful and specific
… It is in such a context that pituitary surgery should exist today, where the neurosurgeon …

… the experience acquired in pituitary pathology and neurosurgical treatment through 38
years of work and 3004 transsphenoidal approaches. In any type of pituitary tumor, before any …

… surgically treated pituitary adenomas operated in this centre. Design and patients: A total of
289 patients underwent neurosurgery for a pituitary tumor, by the same two neurosurgeons, …

… Practice points: Most neurosurgeons are familiar with microsurgical transcranial approaches
to midline lesions, such as pituitary tumors. The dissection needs to be careful and …

… pituitary tumors, cure rates for many subtypes of pituitary lesions, such as secretory
macroadenomas or tumors … We also describe two more recent advances in neurosurgical …

… surgical approaches to the pituitary gland. Initial approaches … Schloffer [8] successfully
removed a pituitary tumor using the … successfully operated on 231 pituitary tumors with a mortality …

… of US neurosurgeons who perform transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumors revealed the
… leak, and 19.4% risk of postoperative pituitary insufficiency.Moreover, the complication rates …

… resolution CT scans for the diagnosis of pituitary tumors is wellestablished. In the case of
tumors greater than 10 mm in diameter, the mass will be easilydem¬ onstrated radiologically. …

… with aneurysmal dilatation for nonpituitary tumors and has been reported only once after
treatment of a pituitary tumor. Aneurysms may mimic pituitary tumors by producing endocrine …

… resection of their pituitary tumor and … pituitary images was made by the neurosurgeon, a
neuroradiologist and an endocrinologist who estimated the three-dimensional size of the tumor …