Visual Outcomes After Pituitary Surgery.

Authors

Benjamin Uy
Bayard Wilson
Wi Jin Kim
Giyarpuram Prashant
Marvin Bergsneider

Publication/Presentation Date

10-1-2019

Abstract

Visual signs and symptoms are a common manifestation of pituitary adenomas from compression or ischemia of the optic nerves and optic chiasm. Although bitemporal hemianopsia is a classic presenting visual field deficit, additional visual disturbances can result from these tumors. After endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery, most patients have improvement in visual symptoms. Preoperative factors including retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, severity of preoperative deficit, duration of visual symptoms, tumor size, extent of resection, and patient age serve as possible predictors of postoperative visual outcomes.

Volume

30

Issue

4

First Page

483

Last Page

489

ISSN

1558-1349

Published In/Presented At

Uy, B., Wilson, B., Kim, W. J., Prashant, G., & Bergsneider, M. (2019). Visual Outcomes After Pituitary Surgery. Neurosurgery clinics of North America, 30(4), 483–489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nec.2019.06.002

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

31471055

Department(s)

Department of Surgery

Document Type

Article