Importance Pituitary adenomas may hypersecrete hormones or cause mass effects.
Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment are important. Observations Prevalence of pituitary …

Background Endoscopic skull‐base surgery (ESBS) is employed in the management of
diverse skull‐base pathologies. Paralleling the increased utilization of ESBS, the literature in …

Acromegaly is a chronic systemic disease with many complications and is associated with
increased mortality when not adequately treated. Substantial advances in acromegaly …

Abstract Cushing's disease (CD), or pituitary-dependent Cushing's syndrome, is a severe
endocrine disease caused by a corticotroph pituitary tumor and associated with increased …

OBJECT An important prognostic factor for the surgical outcome and recurrence of a pituitary
adenoma is its invasiveness into parasellar tissue, particularly into the space of the …

Introduction With the goal of generate uniform criteria among centers dealing with pituitary
tumors and to enhance patient care, the Pituitary Society decided to generate criteria for …

Abstract BACKGROUND The World Health Organization (WHO) system for the classification
of disorders of ovulation was produced 50 years ago and, by international consensus, has …

Background Inconsistent findings have been reported regarding the efficacy and safety of
endoscopic and microscopic transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma. This study …

OBJECTIVE Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are benign neoplasms that are frequently
encountered during workup for endocrinopathy, headache, or visual loss. Transsphenoidal …

OBJECTIVE Many surgeons have adopted fully endoscopic over microscopic
transsphenoidal surgery for nonfunctioning pituitary tumors, although no high-quality …