Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Previous studies demonstrated a relationship between T1- and T2-weighted signal intensity and tumor growth pattern in pituitary somatotropinomas. The goal of this retrospective study was to analyze the MRI characteristics of pituitary macroadenomas with different hormonal activity in newly diagnosed patients.Material and methods: Pre-treatment T1- and T2-weighted MR-images (Intera Achieva, PHILIPS, 3.0T) of patients with 42 non-functional a...

Introduction: Data on transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) and effect of somatostatin analog therapy (SSA) in acromegaly different among medical centers. We analyzed the data on TSS, SSA and their combination in acromegalic patients of Moscow region.Design: In this study 117 acromegalic patients (25 males and 92 females, 55.0 (IQR 44 – 62) years) were eligible for participation, of whom 34 were newly-diagnosed aromegaly (NA group) (macroadenoma (macro)- 80...