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Choose the experts who think about your life after a pituitary tumor is treated. A Mayo Clinic team of experts that specialize in your individual type of pituitary tumor will work together to plan and provide care that meets your needs. Our goal is for you to thrive after treatment.
More than 7,000 adults and children with brain and other central nervous system tumors come to Mayo Clinic each year. Mayo Clinic was among the first to offer endoscopic through-the-nose (transnasal) surgical tumor removal, which is now standard practice. This method is highly successful, reduces discomfort and usually involves just an overnight hospital stay.
At Mayo Clinic, you will have access to doctors who are experts in every aspect of individualized care. Your team will work with you on a plan designed to help reduce hospital stays, lower complication rates, shorten recovery times, and give you the best possible quality-of-life outcomes - including excellent nasal outcomes and endocrine function.
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As a neurosurgeon, if there was one surgery, I couldn't do, that would make me sad. It would be pituitary surgery. If there's only one surgery I could do for the rest of my life. It would be pituitary surgery. Pituitary tumor as growth on the pituitary gland. That isn't a cancer. It doesn't go anywhere else. Like people think about a breast growth or a long growth. But what it does is it pushes on the pituitary gland and may cause that to not work. The truth is they're really well-managed with modern techniques. And most patients only need one episode of care to take care of them. They don't see these recur in the future and people do very well. Mayo Clinic is one of the largest pituitary referral centers in the world. And we're used to seeing pituitary patients from all over the world and all over the country. And I think that gives you somewhat of an advantage in terms of the diversity of pituitary care that we offer. What makes us unique. So if it's pituitary surgery and circumstance, That's what I do all the time. That's what the endocrinologists that you see. Time. My colleagues in ENT, they do these approaches all the time or all talking before surgery. So there's no surprises. There's multiple people involved in care and I think that ultimately leads to better intraoperative decision-making for that patient. In addition to the care of the tumor itself, one of the things that we're very interested in is patient quality of life following this kind of surgery. These include things like endocrine dysfunction, things like feeling of malaise or tiredness as hormonal levels adjust following surgery, as well as things like nasal breathing and sense of smell was a really vitally important to patients joy and how they really get to experience and enjoy the things around them. We fully understand that most of our patients traveling for a great distance. A number of our follow-up visits after surgery can also be done via video visits. More tele medicine, patients may be able to receive imaging studies locally, hadn't sent for a view and then meet with us via video visits and where to review those things with them insured they're progressing well after surgery. Think what's most important for you as a patient. I want to take care of your problem so you get back to your normal life as it should be.