title: Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery: Experience of 80 Cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Surgical approaches to the pituitary have undergone numerous refinements over the last 100 years. The fully endoscopic transsphenoidal approach has gained widespread use all around the world. We report the results of a consecutive series of patients who underwent pituitary surgery using a pure endoscopic endonasal approach and the results of the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of this procedure.
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively reviewed the hospital database of 80 consecutive pituitary adenomas that were resected with the purely endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The preoperative clinical condition of the patients, hormone profile, visual field, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging findings, and the Hardy-Vezina and Knosp scores were evaluated and revealed the importance of the parameters for surgery. Surgical technique, postoperative clinical condition of the patients, hormone profile, complications and follow-up period were reviewed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Endonasal endoscopic pituitary surgery is a safe and effective surgical technique.
authors.affiliation: Evliya Celebi Education and Research Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Kütahya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Korkmaz
authors.forename: Ali Erdem
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Arif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Osun
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Alagoz
authors.forename: Denizhan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Divanlioglu
authors.forename: Ergun
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Daglioglu
authors.forename: Ahmet Deniz
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Belen
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D044583:Neuroendoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D009666:Nose; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000473:pathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult