Research and treatment of invasive pituitary adenomas: current status and future expectation / 第二军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

Invasive pituitary adenoma is a common pituitary adenoma invading nearby structures such as the sphenoidal sinus, ethmoidal sinus,upper clivus,sellar floor dura and bone. With the development of diagnosis neuroradiology, endocrinology,pathology and microsurgery,dramatic progress has been made on the pathogenesis, pre operative diagnosis and therapy of invasive pituitary adenoma.The development of pathology,molecular biological and medication and surgical therapy of invasive pituitary adenoma in the past few years is discussed in this paper.