Pituitary tumor surgery and radiofrequency knife treatment

  The main treatment methods for pituitary tumor are traditional surgical treatment and emerging radiofrequency knife treatment, and both treatments have their own characteristics, which need to be combined with patient’s age, symptoms, signs, imaging data, endocrine examination results, and help patients to choose through expert consultation.    Surgery for pituitary tumor 1. Principle: craniotomy: it is to remove the tumor under the frontal cranium; transsphenoidal sinus surgery: it is to remove the pituitary tumor directly through the nasal passage.  2.Advantages: It has good treatment effect for larger tumors.  3.Time: about 1-2 hours.  4.Cost: about 2~50,000.  5.Disadvantages and side effects: higher recurrence rate, cannot repeat surgical treatment.  6.Adapted to the population: pituitary microadenoma, advanced tumor, pituitary macroadenoma, optic cross anterior and other patients.  1.Principle: To irradiate the tumor (pituitary tumor) by focusing the radiation of radiofrequency knife to lethally destroy the tumor tissue in the target point.  2.Advantages: No general anesthesia, no incision, no bleeding.  3.Time: about 30-45 minutes.  4.Cost: about 30-50 thousand.  5.Disadvantages and side effects: tumor recurrence, complications of radiotherapy.  6.Population: It is widely applicable, especially for patients with high blood pressure and heart disease.