Surgical Approach to Pituitary Tumors

Question 1

What four symptoms arise from the mass effect of sellar tumors?

Answer 1

Headache
Visual disturbances
Pituitary hormone dysfunction
Cranial nerve abnormalities

Question 2

Surgery is the preferred first-line therapy for all pituitary tumors except ______________.

Answer 2

prolactinomas, which can be medically treated