A 63-year-old man was referred to the Massachusetts General Hospital Neuroendocrine & Pituitary Tumor Clinical Center for management of a pituitary macroadenoma. He experienced increasingly severe ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgeons’ preference for an endoscope over the microscope for transsphenoidal surgery visualization during ...

Pituitary tumors, accounting for 10–15% of intracranial neoplasms, often cause significant morbidity due to hormonal dysregulation and compression of surrounding structures. While traditionally ...

A pituitary tumor is an irregular mass on your pituitary gland (the small gland inside your skull that regulates hormones). A tumor that grows can press on your pituitary gland and change your hormone ...

Pituitary apoplexy may require emergency surgical intervention; however, sometimes it can be managed more conservatively with medical therapies, particularly corticosteroid replacement if ...

A tumor in your pituitary gland can disrupt hormones throughout the body. Weight loss after pituitary tumor surgery can be the natural result of hormones finding balance again. Pituitary tumors are ...

The main treatment option for pituitary tumors involves surgical removal of the tumor. The two types of pituitary tumor surgery are transsphenoidal surgery and craniotomy. Transsphenoidal surgery is ...