Background And Purpose: The aim of this study is to present a new endoscopic transnasal transsphenoidal method of surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas and to evaluate the results and complications of the method.
Material And Surgical Technique: From October 2001 to June 2003 in the Department of Neurosurgery of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice 88 operations of pituitary adenomas were performed using the transnasal transsphenoidal endoscopic method. The group of patients consisted of 50 females and 38 males.