Therapeutic approach to non-functioning pituitary adenomas.

摘要: The treatment of non-functioning pituitary adenomas raises two questions: when should they be treated and what role does each available play. We review the usefulness different treatments propose a therapeutic scheme based on existing literature. Active performed produce symptoms, have contact with optic tract, or grown imaging tests. is surgical, using radiotherapy for cases significant non-removable postsurgical tumour remnants those in which histopathology studies show aggressive features. Medical reserved situations surgical been exhausted. most advisable endoscopic, although experienced neurosurgeons achieve results microsurgery that are only slightly inferior.