Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Sterotactic radiosurgery (SR) has been used to treat recurrent adenomas and also as a primary treatment. The objective is to evaluate long-term tumor control, development of hypopituitarism and other side effects in the follow-up.Patients and method: Retrospective analysis of 21 patients with non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFA) treated with modified linear accelerator (LINAC) between 1998 and 2009 in three tertiary Spanish hospitals. C...

Introduction: Sterotactic radiosurgery (SR) has been used to treat recurrent adenomas after failure of medical and surgical procedures and also as a primary treatment. The aim of this paper is to evaluate long-term control of functioning pituitary adenomas (FPA).Patients and method: Thirty-eight patients with FPA treated with modified linear accelerator (LINAC) between 1998 and 2009 in three tertiary Spanish hospitals. Hormonal control was defined as hor...

Cushing’s disease is a debilitating endocrinopathy characterized by excessive cortisol levels in the blood which may be produced from tumours of the pituitary gland. The only way to achieve long term cure of Cushing’s disease is by Transphenoidal removal of the adenoma. ketoconazole, inhibit steroid (cortisol) production in the adrenal glands.The use of glucocorticids treatment before and after hypophisectomy is a classic management in the peri...

Introduction: Patients with severe cerebral Trauma are a risk population for developing hipopituytarism. Diagnosis of GHD need to study pituitary gland reserve with a stimulation test. Insulin Tolerance test (ITT) is the best standard test, although has important contraindication in these patients and its realization is not always a possible. We evaluate the diagnostic capacity of two alternative test (Glucagon Test an GHRH-GHRP6 test) and compared them with ITT.<p class="...

Background: Germ cell tumors (germinoma, teratoma, embryonal carcinoma, yolk sac tumor and choriocarcinoma) constitute 0.3–3.4% of all primary intracraneal tumors. Germinoma is the most common and of better prognosis.Aim: Describing the behaviour of germ cell tumors of the pituitary–hypothalamic region: location, clinical characteristics, diagnosis and follow-up.Material and methods: Review of medical records of patients ...