Patient Question: Disease:Pituitary adenomaDescription:Hello Director Chen Ge! The patient is female and unmarried. In December 14, a growth hormone pituitary adenoma of size 1.1 1.2 1.2 was detected by MRI at Tiantan Hospital, and the hormone was high at 21.600 ng.ml (before surgery). Now, one month after the surgery, the hormone level is higher than 23 points! Because of the hormone level, all parts of the body are very reactive! I’m really scared and worried! I feel like I can’t face my life afterwards! After I found you and saw the positive comments from patients, I can see hope again! Director Chen Ge, please help me to see where the residue is now. The surgeon of the second surgery said that the false membrane formed after the first surgery has affected the effect of the second surgery. I’m really confused and helpless now, crying! Capital Medical University Xuanwu Hospital neurosurgery Chen Ge hope to provide help: afraid to do radiotherapy gamma knife heard that will cause a lot of sequelae, hope to get your help! The hospital department: Tiantan Hospital, China a large capital medical university Xuanwu Hospital, neurosurgery Chen Ge reply: Hello, understand your feelings, the film shows that your residual tumor in the left side of the pituitary gland, although not wrapped around the blood vessels but also protruding into the blood vessels between, you can operate again, but surgery is also very difficult to cut clean protruding into the part between the blood vessels, to achieve complete cure through surgery according to the current level of medicine is difficult or even impossible. There is no need to be overly afraid of radiotherapy, there are advantages and disadvantages to everything, grasp the main contradiction, what affects your health more on the treatment of what. Although radiotherapy has pituitary low power side effects, but if you can control the surgery can not treat the residual tumor, it is worth the risk, but also may not happen, your residual tumor and the normal pituitary gland boundary is clear, I think we can consider Gamma Knife, experienced Gamma Knife doctor to your treatment should be able to minimize complications.