Pure endoscopic transsphenoidal treatment of skull base ameloblastoma with intracranial extension: Case report and literature review.

Background: Ameloblastoma is a benign locally invasive lesion that represents 1% of all oral tumors. Epidemiological characteristics are variable in the literature. The most common origin sites are mandible and maxilla.

Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Treatment of Pituitary Apoplexy: 16 Years of Experience in a Specialized Pituitary Center.

Objective: Symptomatic pituitary apoplexy is a rare but life-threatening condition caused by sudden hemorrhage or infarction of a pituitary adenoma. In the current study, we aim to evaluate the clinical presentation, management, and clinical outcomes in a cohort of patients who were treated for this condition in our center in the last 16 years.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of all patients who underwent endoscopic endonasal surgery for treatment of symptomatic pituitary apoplexy between 2001 and 2016 in our center.

Endoscopic skull base surgery: evaluation of current clinical outcomes.

Endoscopic skull base surgery is one of the most recent fields of neurosurgery. Successive innovations were developed throughout history so that the current concepts that rule this surgical field could be reached. The current paper presents the evolution of endoscopic surgery and its current results on the treatment of skull base tumor, based on a review of meta-analysis and clinical series.

Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery in elderly patients with pituitary adenomas.

Object: With the increase in the average life expectancy, medical care of elderly patients with symptomatic pituitary adenoma (PA) will continue to grow. Little information exists in the literature about the surgical treatment of these patients. The aim of this study was to present the results of a single pituitary center in the surgical treatment of PAs in patients > 70 years of age.

Giant pituitary adenomas: surgical outcomes of 50 cases operated on by the endonasal endoscopic approach.

Objective: To present our experience with the surgical management of giant pituitary adenomas in a series of 50 cases operated on by an endoscopic endonasal approach.

Methods: A retrospective data analysis of all patients who underwent transsphenoidal endonasal endoscopic surgery at the General Hospital of Fortaleza, Brazil, between January 1998 and November 2011 was performed. Patients who presented with pituitary adenomas larger than 4 cm were included in the study.

Endoscopic endonasal approach for pituitary adenoma: surgical complications in 301 patients.

The authors investigate the complications of transnasal transsphenoidal endoscopic surgery in the treatment of 301 patients with pituitary adenomas. A retrospective analysis of complications in 301 patients submitted to transsphenoidal transnasal endoscopic surgery at the General Hospital of Fortaleza, Brazil between January 1998 and December 2009. The complications were divided in two groups: anatomical (oronasofacial, sphenoid sinus, intrasellar, suprasellar and parasellar) and endocrinological complications (anterior and posterior pituitary dysfunctions).

Pure endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery for treatment of acromegaly: results of 67 cases treated in a pituitary center.

Object: Acromegaly is a chronic disease related to the excess of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor–I secretion, usually by pituitary adenomas. Traditional treatment of acromegaly consists of surgery, drug therapy, and eventually radiotherapy. The introduction of endoscopy as an additional tool for surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas and, therefore, acromegaly represents an important advance of pituitary surgery in the recent years.

Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery: surgical results of 228 pituitary adenomas treated in a pituitary center.

Pituitary tumors are challenging tumors in the sellar region. Surgical approaches to the pituitary have undergone numerous refinements over the last 100 years. The introduction of the endoscope have revolutionized pituitary surgery.

McCune-Albright syndrome and acromegaly: hormonal control with use of cabergoline and long-acting somatostatin--case report.

Objectives: The use of drug therapy based on cabergoline, octreotide and long-acting release (LAR) octreotide has presented varying results in the treatment of GH excessive production in patients with McCune-Albright Syndrome.

Methods: We report the case of a 29 year-old female patient presenting McCune-Albright Syndrome and complaint of excessive bone growth.

Results: The patient presented a pituitary adenoma involving the right internal carotid artery and excessive secretion of growth hormone (no GH suppression was observed after the oral glucose tolerance test).

Headache associated with pituitary tumors.

The objective of this study is to analyze the presence of headache in pituitary tumors and their characteristics, the relationship between pituitary tumor size, biological type, local extension and intrasellar pressure (ISP). This is a prospective study, of 64 consecutive patients presenting with primary pituitary masses at Neuroendocrinological Department of General Hospital of Fortaleza from October 2005 to December 2006. We analyzed sex, age, headache (laterality, site, severity, quality, frequency, duration, associated symptoms, time of onset, trigger, alleviating factors and familial history) and tumor characteristics (type, size, quiasmatic compression, cavernous sinus invasion, sella turcica destruction, cystic or solid mass and ISP).

Outcome of surgical intrasellar growth hormone tumor performed by a pituitary specialist surgeon in a developing country.

Background: Acromegaly is an excessive GH secretion, which in most cases, is caused by a pituitary GH-secreting adenoma. Traditional treatment of acromegaly consists of surgery, drug therapy, and eventually radiotherapy. The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate the results of transsphenoidal endoscopic surgery in a group of patients with intrasellar GH adenoma who were operated by a pituitary specialist surgeon.

Rathke's cleft cyst and partial feet adactyly: an unusual association.

A 53 year-old woman presented a recurrent bifrontal headache of 2 years duration and bilateral progressive visual disturbance. The clinical and neurological examination showed a bilateral feet adactyly and bitemporal hemianopsia. The brain MRI demonstrated a Rathke's cleft cyst.

Intrasellar pressure and tumor volume in pituitary tumor: relation study.

Objective: To determine if there was a relationship between intrassellar pressure (ISP) and pituitary tumor volume.

Method: Between August 2002 and May 2004, 60 patients aged between 13 and 75 years old (39 males), having a pituitary adenoma were submitted to an endoscope transseptal approach. During the surgery and before tumor resection, 2 mm of the sellas floor were removed and a 1.

Hypopituitarism and amenorrhea-galactorrhea syndrome caused by thrombosis of both internal carotid artery and giant intrasellar aneurysm: case report.

Giant intra and parasellar aneurysm with a spontaneous thrombosis of internal carotid artery is rare. We report the case of a 34 years old woman presenting a unique giant sellar and parasellar aneurysm associated with hypopituitarism and amenorrhea-galactorrhea syndrome. Computed tomographic scans and magnetic resonance images were suggestive of a sellar tumor with a cystic component.

[Transnasal endoscopic surgery of the sellar region: study of the first 100 cases].

An endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach to the sella was performed in 100 consecutive patients, with a follow up from 3 to 55 months: 57 females and 43 males, age ranging from 14 and 70 years. 76 cases pituitary adenomas: 22 were acromegaly (7 microadenomas and 15 macroadenomas); 21 null cell adenomas (3 microadenomas and 18 macroadenomas); 19 Cushing disease (11 microadenomas and 8 macroadenomas), 10 prolactinomas (6 microadenomas and 4 macroadenomas), and 4 LH adenomas (4 macroadenomas). In this serie, remission was achieved in 44.

Esthesioneuroblastoma: case report.

Esthesioneuroblatoma (ENB) is a rare tumor arising from the olfactory epithelium of the nasal vault which frequently invades the cranial base, cranial vault and orbit. ENB has a bimodal age distribution between 11 and 20 years and between 51 and 60 years. ENB accounts for approximately 1 to 5% of intranasal cancers and no consensus has been reached regarding treatment of this tumor.

[Neurosurgical treatment of sphenoidal mucocele by endonasal transseptal endoscopic approach: report of two cases].

Mucoceles are benign, slowly expansive, mucous-filled cystic lesions that arise in the paranasal sinuses. They most commonly occur in the frontal and ethmoid sinuses and are rarely in the sphenoid sinus. The incidence of sphenoid sinus mucoceles is about 1% of paranasal sinus mucoceles.