title: Surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas in elderly patients.
abstract: Partly due to increased life expectancy, more and more patients over 60 years of age present with neurosurgical problems. In each case you have to decide to operate a patient or not. Describing the management in pituitary adenomas we conclude that also in elderly people operative therapy via the transsphenoidal approach can be done with a low risk in most cases.
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital GHS Essen, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Pospiech
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Stolke
authors: F R
authors: FR
authors: Pospiech
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D009384:Paraneoplastic Endocrine Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D015996:Survival Rate