Analysis of curative effect of surgery on patients with pituitary adenomas (report of 116 cases)
LIAN Hai-wei
LIU Ren-zhong
JIAN Zhi-hong
WANG Jun
YI Wei
YANG Zhen-xing
LIU Jia
WANG Lei
Abstract：Objective To evaluate the curative effect of different surgical forms on the pituitary adenomas, and their indications, merits and demerits. Methods The clinical data of 116 patients with pituitary adenomas, who underwent surgery from February, 2011 to October, 2017, were analyzed retrospectively. Of 116 patients with pituitary adenomas, 85 were treated by transnasal transphenoidal microsurgery, 24 by microsurgery via pterional approach, 4 microsurgery via right supercillary arche key hole approach and 3 by microsurgery via longtudinal approach. Results The pituitary adenomas were totally resected in 92 patients, subtotally in 20, in great part in 3 and partly in 1. Conclusions The surgical outcomes are good in these 116 patients. The pituitary adenomas confined to the sella and parasellar regions should be removed by microsurgery through transnasal transsphenoidal approach. But the invasive pituitary tumors should be by individualized microsurgery selected according to their characteristics on the images.
Keywords：Pituitary adenomasMicrosurgerySurgical indicationsCurative effect
Publication Date：2018-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 798-799 )