Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Prospective study of medical treatment effect in newly diagnosed patients with large and giant prolactinomas.Patients and methods: The study group included 45 patients with large prolactinomas (tumors more 3,6 cm) and 23 patients with giant prolactinomas (tumors more than 6 cm); from them 8 mainly cystic tumors. The treatment period was 3–24 month (mean 6). Serum prolactin level before treatment ranged between 12 990 and 1 038 000 mU/l (m...

Craniopharyngiomas (CF) - a benign tumor of the embryologic origin. The surgical method of treatment is the basic.Objective: to estimate incidence of hypogonatropic hypogonadism before and after surgical treatment of CF at different topographical variations, and after the preservation of the pituitary stalk. Methods: The research involved 79 patients older than 18 years (41 women and 38 men) with a mean age - 40 [17; 69] with a ver...