Purpose: Endoscope-assisted transsphenoidal surgery over the last few years has led to more radical excision of pituitary adenomas (PAs) with a low complication rate. Systematic registration of complications by experienced surgical teams could help to improve this technique while ameliorating the patients' quality of life.
Materials And Methods: One hundred ten endoscopic procedures were performed in 94 patients with PAs (37 functional) by the same neurosurgical team of a tertiary center during the period 2014-2019. Post-surgical complications were analyzed and compared with data published during the last 5 years in the PubMed and Cochrane databases by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.
Results: The overall complication rate in our series was 23.4%. Diabetes insipidus (DI) and intraoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage were the commonest complications (12.8%), followed by postoperative hypopituitarism (9.2%) and hematoma (8.5%) during the follow-up of 2.15 ± 1.4 years. Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, meningitis, deep vein thrombosis, and hyposmia were rare (< 3%). Postoperative hypopituitarism was significantly associated with incidence of hematoma. No statistically significant association was found between PAs Hardy and Knosp scale grading or between patients' characteristics with the occurrence of postoperative complications. Our meta-analysis including nine studies found no significant differences comparing the complications of endoscopic versus microscopic surgery.
Conclusion: The endoscopic approach is safe when performed by experienced surgical teams. CSF leakage and DI were the commonest complications in our series; however, confirmation by larger studies is required. Meta-analysis showed no statistically significant differences in complication rates comparing endoscopic versus microscopic surgery.
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