How are pituitary adenomas treated?
Treatment can be conservative or surgical, it all depends on the individual patient, the size of the tumor, the characteristics of growth, and also on whether the adenoma is synthesizing hormones. Most patients live normal lives, they only need conservative therapy or observation without treatment at all.
But even if the tumor has to be removed surgically, this does not mean at all that trepanation is done in 100% of cases. Neurosurgery uses minimally invasive techniques, microscopes and endoscopes.
Most often, the pituitary adenoma is removed through the nasal passage. For the patient, this means that he can quickly return to his normal life.
Also today, adenomas are treated with medication and methods of radiation therapy. In many cases, therapy includes a combination of these methods, for example, first, using medication, doctors try to reduce the size of the tumor, and then it is removed surgically.
