Transsphenoidal pituitary adenoma resection: do early post-operative cortisol levels predict permanent long-term hypocortisolism?

VM Butenschoen, A von Werder, S Bette… - Neurosurgical …, 2022 - Springer
Transsphenoidal surgery provides a minimal invasive treatment for pituitary adenoma. Our
aim is to evaluate the endocrinological outcomes after adenoma resection focusing on the …

The influence of hospital volume on the outcomes of nasopharyngeal, sinonasal, and skull-base tumors: a systematic review of the literature

S Flukes, RK Sharma, S Lohia… - Journal of Neurological …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Objective The center of excellence model of health care hypothesizes that increased volume
in a specialized center will lead to better and more affordable care. We sought to …

Worse pituitary adenoma surgical outcomes predicted by increasing frailty, not age

R Thommen, SF Kazim, KL Cole, GT Olson, L Shama… - World Neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Increasing patient age has been associated with worse outcomes after pituitary
adenoma resection in previous studies, but the prognostic value of frailty compared with …

Risk factors associated with the surgical management of craniopharyngiomas in pediatric patients: analysis of 1961 patients from a national registry database

J Bakhsheshian, DL Jin, KE Chang, BA Strickland… - Neurosurgical …, 2016 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Patient demographic characteristics, hospital volume, and admission status
have been shown to impact surgical outcomes of sellar region tumors in adults; however, the …

India's march towards development of treatment for pituitary tumors

P Gupta, M Tripathi, S Dhandapani, P Dutta - Neurology India, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Although low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) bear the burden of the
pituitary adenomas, most research is conducted in developed countries. However, there has …

Systematic review and network meta-analysis assess the comparative efficacy and safety of transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary tumor

W Dai, Z Zhuang, H Ling, Y Yang, C Hang - Neurosurgical Review, 2021 - Springer
To quantitatively synthesize the comparative efficacy and safety of the most common
surgical approaches including endonasal transsphenoidal endoscopic surgery (ETES) …

Predictors of 30‐day morbidity and mortality in transnasal microscopic pituitary tumor excision

LA Lawrence, AB Baker, SA Nguyen… - … Forum of Allergy & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background There is a lack of population‐based, multi‐institutional analyses of factors
associated with morbidity and mortality following pituitary tumor excision. Methods The …

Complication avoidance in endoscopic skull base surgery

PM Horowitz, V DiNapoli, SY Su… - … Clinics of North America, 2016 - oto.theclinics.com
The use of endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEA) to the skull base pathology has
evolved significantly over the past 2 decades. Development of the 2-surgeon collaboration …

The State of Machine Learning in Outcomes Prediction of Transsphenoidal Surgery: A Systematic Review

DB Yang, AD Smith, EJ Smith, A Naik… - … Surgery Part B: Skull …, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
The purpose of this analysis is to assess the use of machine learning (ML) algorithms in the
prediction of postoperative outcomes, including complications, recurrence, and death in …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the association of tumor consistency and gland manipulation on hormonal outcomes and delayed hyponatremia in pituitary macroadenoma …

S Schur, O Lasry, MA Tewfik, S Di Maio - Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Neuro-endocrine dysfunction such as electrolyte imbalance and
hypopituitarism are among the most frequent surgical complications following pituitary …