Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Radiotherapy is part of the complex treatment of pituitary tumors; it is an effective treatment for residual postoperative tumors or recurrent tumors, but cerebrovascular events and secondary intracranial tumors may occur during long term follow-up.Aim: To assess prevalence of cerebrovascular events, secondary intracranial tumors and other neoplasia in patients with non-acromegaly pituitary tumors and craniopharyngiomas submitted to radiother...

Background: Suitable postoperative radiotherapy (RT) of nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas (NFMAs) is still controversial, subjected to rapid technical and medical progress.Patients and methods.: We studied 87 patients with NFMA to identify factors affecting tumor control such as the time of RT and tumor pathology. Partial pituitary surgery was performed either by transfrontal (30 patients) or transsphenoidal (57 patients) approach. An immunoperoxida...