Recovery Room Cortisol Predicts Long-Term Glucocorticoid Need After Transsphenoidal Surgery for Pituitary Tumors.

Background: Accurate assessment of the need for glucocorticoid therapy is essential after transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) for pituitary tumors. Agreement on the best test to use in the early postoperative setting is lacking.

Objective: To examine recovery room (RR) cortisol as a predictor of long-term need for glucocorticoids.

Rare Case of Convexity Meningioma Growing into Arachnoid Cyst.

Background: Meningioma growing into an arachnoid cyst is an extremely rare event. Only 3 cases are reported in the literature. In 2 of them, an operative procedure in or near the arachnoid cyst preceded tumor growth.

Modern management of rare brain metastases in adults.

Brain metastases (BM) represent the main cause of intracranial neoplasms in adults, while being relatively less common in children. Today, better treatment options of the primary malignancy lead to higher remission rates as well as prolonged stable clinical conditions. This may in part explain the increased incidence of BM.