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Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery

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Pituitary adenomas are tumors that make up a significant portion of neurosurgical practice. According to the Japanese Brain Tumor Registry [1], pituitary adenomas (n = 6653) comprise 17.4% of all primary brain tumors (N = 38,273). Their clinical presentation can be divided into two groups: functioning adenomas that secrete excess pituitary hormones resulting in endocrinologic symptoms and signs, and nonfunctioning adenomas that do not secrete biologically active hormones. All adenomas, particularly when they grow and extend outside the sella turcica, will cause neurologic deficit due to compression of surrounding tissues (e.g., bitemporal hemianopsia and hypopituitarism).

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    Kintomo Takakura MD, PhD (President) & Motohiro Hayashi MD, PhD (Lecturer of the Department of Neurosurgery and Chief of Gamma Knife Center)

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

    Masahiro Izawa MD, PhD (Assistant Professor)

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Takakura, K., Hayashi, M., Izawa, M. (2008). Pituitary Tumors. In: Chin, L.S., Regine, W.F. (eds) Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71070-9_26

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