Management of Pituitary Tumors

by Michael P. Powell; ?Stafford L. Lightman; ?Edward R. Laws Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781592593903
• ISBN10: 1592593909
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-05-14
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Endocrine management has undergone considerable change in the last decade, generating a real need for this brilliantly expanded and fully updated edition of Management of Pituitary Tumors: The Clinician's Practical Guide. Once again, leading physicians from a variety of medical specialties summarize their clinical experiences in treating pituitary adenomas in North America and the United Kingdom. Using simple language to describe their approaches, the authors have produced a comprehensive but user-friendly guide to the many differing aspects of these fascinating tumors. The book combines individual chapters on the latest treatments for prolactinoma, acromegaly, Cushing's disease, and nonfunctioning pituitary tumors, with discussions of the latest surgical techniques, including Gamma Knife radiosurgery, as well as transsphenoidal and endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery, all explained in terms that the nonsurgical specialist will understand. Expert guidance is also provided on surgical assessment, on anesthetic management, and on the early and long-term postoperative management of pituitary tumors. To round out the clinician's understanding of the illness, a patient describes the actual experience of diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. Authoritative and accessible, Management of Pituitary Tumors: The Clinician's Practical Guide brings together all the medical fields involved in treating pituitary tumors, both for novices across all the specialties that manage these cases, and for those pituitary specialists seeking to understand better the contribution of other medical disciplines to the treatment of these formidable tumors. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Preface to the First Edition	p. ix
Contributors	p. xv
Pathogenesis of Pituitary Adenomas	p. 1
Prolactinoma	p. 21
Acromegaly	p. 43
Cushing's Disease	p. 51
Nonfunctioning Pituitary Tumors	p. 77
Visual Manifestations of Pituitary Tumors	p. 95
Surgical Assessment and Anesthetic Management of the Pituitary Patient	p. 109
Transsphenoidal Surgery	p. 127
Transcranial Surgery	p. 147
Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Surgery	p. 161
Early Postoperative Management of Pituitary Tumors	p. 173
Long-Term Postoperative Management	p. 181
Conventional Radiotherapy for Pituitary Adenomas	p. 205
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Secretory Pituitary Adenomas	p. 221
Parasellar Lesions Other Than Pituitary Adenomas	p. 231
A Patient's Perspective on Pituitary Tumors	p. 287
Index	p. 309
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