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Surgical treatment of pituitary adenomas in elderly patients
J Pospiech1, D Stolke, F R Pospiech
1Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital GHS Essen, Federal Republic of Germany.
Acta Neurochirurgica. Supplement
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
Partly due to increased life expectancy, more and more patients over 60 years of age present with neurosurgical problems. In each case you have to decide to operate a patient or not. Describing the management in pituitary adenomas we conclude that also in elderly people operative therapy via the transsphenoidal approach can be done with a low risk in most cases.