Pituitary tumors Pituitary tumors are common slow growing benign intracranial tumors. It usually presents with headache, irregular menstruation and milk coming out of the nipples, male impotence and vision loss, etc. Diagnosis is made by cranial examination and endocrine tests.
Surgery is the main treatment method and can be divided into transcranial pituitary tumor resection and transsphenoidal pituitary tumor resection. With the development of microsurgery, transsphenoidal approach for pituitary tumor resection is considered to be able to remove tumor and preserve pituitary function intact, with short operation and anesthesia time, few complications, few adverse reactions, fast recovery and low mortality, and can avoid damage to frontal lobe, olfactory nerve and optic nerve during craniotomy.
For some pituitary tumors, oral bromocriptine treatment can be used under the guidance of doctors, which can achieve very good results