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Silent pituitary macroadenoma co-secreting growth hormone and thyroid stimulating hormone

✍ Scribed by Orhan Sen; M Eda Ertorer; M Volkan Aydin; Bulent Erdogan; Nur Altinors; Suzan Zorludemir; Nilgun Guvener

Book ID
116673426
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
63 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0967-5868

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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