Treatment and follow-up of clinically nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas

OM Dekkers, AM Pereira… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… specific tool, its use is limited due to the low negative predictive value for tumor recurrence,
especially in patients with a relative large distance between pituitary tumor and optic chiasm. …

Postoperative surveillance of clinically nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas: markers of tumour quiescence and regrowth

Y Greenman, G Ouaknine, I Veshchev… - Clinical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
tumour recurrence or residual mass enlargement. II – enclosed macroadenoma; IV – invasive
macroadenoma. … of patients with tumour size enlargement or recurrence in each group. …

Non-functioning pituitary macroadenoma: surgical outcomes, tumor regrowth, and alterations in pituitary function—3-year experience from the Iranian Pituitary Tumor …

A Najmaldin, M Malek, NH Madani, M Ghorbani… - Hormones, 2019 - Springer
… When we evaluated the probability of tumor regrowth after the first surgery, we found that
5.6% of … in our patients were tumor regrowth and documented silent corticotropic adenoma. …

Factors predicting relapse of nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas after neurosurgery: a study of 142 patients

S Brochier, F Galland, M Kujas, F Parker… - European Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… radiotherapy after initial neurosurgery, and immunopathological status were independent
risk factors for tumor recurrence/regrowth (Table 3). The presence of a postoperative …

Younger age is a risk factor for regrowth and recurrence of nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas: Results from a single Australian centre

AK Watts, A Easwaran, P McNeill… - Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recurrence was defined as any new radiologically detected pituitary adenoma after initial
complete … Regrowth/recurrence requiring treatment was strongly predicted by extra sellar …

Tumor recurrence or regrowth in adults with nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas using GH replacement therapy

NC Van Varsseveld, CC Van Bunderen… - The Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… Studies investigating tumor regrowth or recurrence in pituitary adenoma (PA) patients using
GH-RT are relatively scarce in literature (11, 16–23). Interpretation and comparison of these …

Clinically non-functioning pituitary adenoma

CA Jaffe - Pituitary, 2006 - Springer
… Although tumor recurrence at 10 years post surgery may be as high as 50%, few patients
with recurrence will have clinical symptoms. Close follow-up with surveillance pituitary scans …

Prognostic factors of regrowth in nonfunctioning pituitary tumors

G Raverot, A Vasiljevic, E Jouanneau - Pituitary, 2018 - Springer
… risk of recurrence. However, no medical treatment is currently approved for treatment of NFPTs
… with a risk of postoperative pituitary tumor recurrence or progression during follow-up that …

Early results of surgery in patients with nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma and analysis of the risk of tumor recurrence

M Losa, P Mortini, R Barzaghi, P Ribotto… - Journal of …, 2008 - thejns.org
… function can either worsen or improve after surgical removal of a pituitary adenoma. New …
pituitary function can be restored after selective surgical removal of the pituitary adenoma,3,36,…

Non-functioning pituitary adenoma database: a useful resource to improve the clinical management of pituitary tumors

E Ferrante, M Ferraroni, T Castrignano… - European journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… of tumor recurrence or regrowth in patients with non-functioning pituitary adenoma (n = 226)…
A indicates patients without postoperative tumor treatment, B, patients with tumor remnant …