Transsphenoidal Surgery. Using an endoscopic camera microscope small light and precision instruments the surgeon enters the sinus through the nose to remove the mass. The pituitary gland is located at the bottom of your brain and above the inside of your nose.
Most pituitary tumors can be removed by transsphenoidal tumor surgery. Transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenomas. This is the most common way to remove pituitary tumors.
Transsphenoidal surgery is an endoscopic procedure where our fellowship trained neurosurgeons remove a pituitary tumor via the nasal cavity.
A patient guide the neuroendocrine pituitary tumor clinical center offers detailed outpatient evaluation of all disorders affecting the endocrine function of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland achieved through comprehensive office visits complete basal and dynamic hormone testing and coordination of radiologic studies and visual field evaluations. Other topics in patient care health info diseases conditions a z. Your pbs neurosurgeon performs transsphenoidal surgery through the sphenoid sinus. Most pituitary tumors can be removed by transsphenoidal tumor surgery.
