Transsphenoidal surgery

Pituitary adenoma

Diabetes insipidus

Hypopituitarism

Thrombosis

Perioperative

Pituitary apoplexy

Adenoma

Sepsis

Venous thrombosis

Meningitis

Internal medicine

Surgery

Medicine

Journal of neurosurgery

Pituitary adenomas (PAs) are benign neoplasms that are frequently encountered during workup for endocrinopathy, headache, or visual loss. Transsphenoidal surgery remains the first-line approach for PA resection. The authors retrospectively assessed complication rates associated with transsphenoidal PA resection from an institutional database.

Complications associated with microscopic and endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: experience of 1153 consecutive cases treated at a single tertiary care pituitary center