Some opinions of tumors of sellar fossa and sellar region in Viet Duc Hospital during 01/1991 - 06/1996

Author: Huynh Tu Vu
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: sellar fossa tumor
MeSH: Neoplasms
From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine 1999;233(2):97-104
CountryViet Nam
Language:Vietnamese
Abstract: 87 patients had been operated on 5 years and six months in which there were: 47 pituitary adenomas, 23 craniopharyngiomas, 1 metastatic carcinoma and 4 undentified tumors. Masculine sex was 54/33 (60%) and a great number of patients was young. Almost patients came late with a voluminous size of tumor. The main signs were visual failure for every patients and endocrine disturbances especially in pituitary adenoma or craniopharyngioma. The outcome in general was favourable and acceptable: improvement of visual acuity, endocrine disturbances diminution and disapperance of headache. The mortatily was low. The recurrency rate was still low, but the followup in long term showed an increase of reoperated patients. Laboratory investigations (especially radioimmuno assay) and histopathological classification were our two limitations in this study.