Endocrine Abstracts

Neurocognitive dysfunction has been described in patients following pituitary radiotherapy. However, the relative contributions of other variables such as hormone-deficiency states and surgery is still unknown. Our aim was to compare the results of an examination of executive function in acromegalic patients treated with transsphenoidal surgery (TS) alone to those obtained from patients treated with TS followed by conventional radiotherapy (CR) using a two-field technique. We ...