Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery: surgical results of 228 pituitary adenomas treated in a pituitary center

Results of endoscopic transsphenoidal pi

Results of endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery in 40 patients with a growth hormone-secreting macroadenoma

✍ Margreet Albertina E. M. Wagenmakers; Romana T. Netea-Maier; Erik J. van Lindert 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 Springer Vienna 🌐 English ⚖ 179 KB

## Objective Transsphenoidal pituitary surgery (TS) is the primary treatment of choice for patients with acromegaly. Macroadenomas (>1 cm) are more difficult to resect than microadenomas (remission rate ± 50% compared to ± 90%). Besides the conventional microscopic TS, the more recently introduced