What are the treatments for pituitary tumors? Nowadays, the pace of people’s life is accelerating, people’s workload is getting heavier and heavier, and they often feel headache and heavy head. However, people often don’t think it’s a pituitary tumor and never think it’s a pituitary tumor, so they may delay the treatment. Therefore, we need to know what are some pituitary tumor treatment methods.
1.Radiotherapy: Whether pituitary tumor can be cured or not is very different from the treatment method chosen for pituitary tumor. Although radiation therapy for pituitary adenoma has certain efficacy, further research on the dose, efficacy and damage to pituitary hypoplasia, optic cross-optic nerve and peripheral vascular nerve structures is still needed in clinical practice.
2.Surgical treatment: there are two kinds of craniotomy and transsphenoidal sinus surgery, one is to remove pituitary tumor under frontal and the other is to reach pituitary tumor directly through nasal passage. Single-nostril transsphenoidal approach is beneficial to complete removal of tumor. The single nostril approach is directly opposite to the saddle base, which has a larger radiation surface on the saddle, and the nasal base end of the speculum can be moved to obtain good exposure of the anterior and posterior parts of the saddle base. By adjusting the magnification and focal length of the nasal speculum and microscope, the single nostril approach can provide a clear and direct view of the tumor from multiple angles and levels, which is conducive to the complete resection of the tumor, reduce the damage to the supra-anterior tissues and arachnoid capsule and decrease the incidence of postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leakage.
3.Drug therapy: It is widely applied to the population and universally applicable, with fast absorption and most of the drugs entering the brain. Hyperprolactinemia and re-increase in pituitary tumor size may occur after discontinuation of the drug.
Western drug therapy is effective in only a fraction of cases. For example, bromocriptine for PRL adenoma, GH adenoma, ACTH adenoma, growth inhibitor or estrogen for GH adenoma, cycloheximide, mepyridone for ACTH adenoma, non-functioning adenoma and pituitary hypopituitary gland, various hormone replacement therapies are used, all of which are palliative and can relieve symptoms to varying degrees, but cannot cure the disease at all.