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ea0029p1506 | Pituitary Clinical | ICEECE2012

Clinical experience with acromegalic patients who have macroadenomas and long term follow-up results

Oruk G , Bahceci M , Oygen A , Olmezoglu A , Bezircioglu H

The increased morbidity and mortality of acromegaly makes early diagnosis and therapy critical. Long term follow-up and investigating comorbidities of this disease is also important. We present here retrospective results of 70 patients. There were 41 female, 29 male patient included in the study. Follow-up period was longer than 5 years. Fifty-nine of the patients were macroadenoma, 4 of them were empty sella, 7 of them were microadenoma. Seven patients refused surgical treatm...