Results of endoscopic transsphenoidal pi
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Margreet Albertina E. M. Wagenmakers; Romana T. Netea-Maier; Erik J. van Lindert
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Article
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2011
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Springer Vienna
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English
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## Objective Transsphenoidal pituitary surgery (TS) is the primary treatment of choice for patients with acromegaly. Macroadenomas (>1Β cm) are more difficult to resect than microadenomas (remission rate Β± 50% compared to Β± 90%). Besides the conventional microscopic TS, the more recently introduced