Pituitary adenomas typically grow slowly and can respond well to treatment. Standard treatment options may include surgery, radiation therapy, and medications. Pituitary adenomas are tumors that ...

Surgery doesn't always cure acromegaly. Learn why pituitary tumors can persist, the difference between persistence and ...

Multicenter International Study, Led by Cedars-Sinai and Presented at American Association of Neurological Surgeons Scientific Meeting, Finds Medical Management Yields Similar Results to Surgery New ...

The first prospective study comparing outcomes in patients with pituitary apoplexy—sudden bleeding or death of a pituitary tumor—found that patients managed medically fared as well as those treated ...

The study covered in this summary was published on Research Square as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. The researchers suggest using as a cutoff a copeptin level of >3.4 pmol/L at ...

Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal resection has been accepted as a routine therapy for pituitary adenoma, but the postoperative hospital stay is typically several days long. With the advantages of ...

Located just beneath the brain, the pituitary gland is sometimes called “the master gland” because it regulates most of the hormones in the body. Approximately 20 percent of people have some sort of ...

A suburban Chicago woman who feared she might never have another child is now celebrating a growing family after brain surgery at Northwestern Medicine. After the birth of her first daughter in 2022, ...

Treatment for giant and irregular pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (GIPitNETs) using Endoscopic endonasal surgery (EES) might be challenging. CECS is an alternate procedure developed for the treatment ...

A recent study found that tumors of the pituitary gland are more common than many health care professionals realize, with national prevalence rates averaging 16.7 percent. To neurosurgeon Dr. Gail ...

Hormone-secreting adenomas are treated in many neurosurgical centers within Europe. The goal of the survey is to understand variance in practice management of pituitary tumors amongst neurosurgical ...

Acromegaly is a condition where the body continues to grow due to excess growth hormone from a pituitary gland tumour ...