Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Treatment of choice of ACTH producing pituitary adenoma is transsphenoidal resection. Owing to difficult visual demarcation of the adenoma, peroperative feedback about the completeness of the resection would be desirable. We investigated if rapid per-operative ACTH measurements is useful in surgical strategy.Methods: Thirteen patients with pituitary adenomas were operated. An modified ACTH-assay delivered results within 30 min. Catheters were...