Surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas in elderly patients.
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.
Pospiech
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Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital GHS Essen, Federal Republic of Germany.
Stolke
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Pospiech
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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