Description:

Eminent clinicians and specialists thoroughly review in great detail every aspect of pituitary tumors. The topics covered include prolactinomas, somatotroph adenomas, corticotroph adenomas, thyrotroph adenomas, nonfunctioning tumors, pituitary tumors, invasive adenomas, and pituitary carcinomas, as well as lesions, exclusive of pituitary adenomas, that occur in the sellar region. Also discussed are the new methods in endocrine diagnosis, high resolution imaging, receptor-mediated pharmacotherapy, microsurgical techniques, improved methods of radiation delivery, and the development of a precise and physiologically meaningful classification of pituitary tumors. Much-needed and brilliantly multidisciplinary, Diagnosis and Management of Pituitary Tumors offers all those dealing with pituitary cancer patients today’s most comprehensive guide to diagnosis and treatment, one whose coordinated treatment strategies have sharply improved long-term survival rates for many patients.

Table of contents:

Pituitary Adenomas: Historic Considerations, Raymond V. Randall, Bernd W. Scheithauer, and Kalman Kovacs. Anatomy of the Pituitary Gland and Sellar Region, Albert L. Rhoton, Jr. Hypothalamic–Pituitary Physiology and Regulation, Miklos I. Goth, Gabor B. Makara, and Ida Gerendai. Epidemiology of Pituitary Tumors, Shozo Yamada. Pathogenesis and Molecular Biology of Pituitary Tumors, Ilan Shimon and Shlomo Melmed. Experimental Models of Pituitary Tumorigenesis, Lucia Stefaneanu. Pathology of Pituitary Adenomas and Pituitary Hyperplasia, Bernd W. Scheithauer, Eva Horvath, Ricardo V. Lloyd, and Kalman Kovacs. Molecular Pathology of Pituitary Tumors, Ricardo V. Lloyd. Diagnosis, Management, and Prognosis of Pituitary Tumors: General Considerations, Mary Lee Vance. Neuro-Ophthalmologic Evaluation of Pituitary Tumors, Shirley I. Stiver and James A. Sharpe. Imaging of Pituitary Tumors, Derek Emery and Walter Kucharczyk. Positron Emission Tomography in Sellar Tumors: In Vivo Metabolic, Receptor, and Enzyme Characterizaiton, Carin Muhr. Pituitary Surgery, Kamal Thapar and Edward R. Laws, Jr. Medical Therapy of Pituitary Tumors, Mark E. Molitch. Radiation Therapy of Pituitary Tumors: Including Stereotactic Radiosurgery, B. Dawn Moose and Edward G. Shaw. Prolactinomas, Charles F. Abboud and Michael J. Ebersold. Somatotroph Adenomas: Acromegaly and Gigantism, Hans-Jürgen Quabbe and Ursula Plöckinger. Corticotroph Adenomas: Cushing’s Disease and Nelson’s Syndrome, Joan C. Lo, J. Blake Tyrrell, and Charles B. Wilson. Thyrotroph Adenomas, Michael Buchfelder and Rudolf Fahlbusch. Clinically Nonfunctioning Pituitary Adenomas, William F. Young, Jr. Pituitary Tumors in Children, Nalin Gupta and James T. Rutka. Invasive Pituitary Adenoma and Pituitary Carcinoma, Peter J. Pernicone and Bernd W. Scheithauer. Sellar Tumors Other Than Adenomas, Paul E. McKeever, Mila Blaivas, and Stephen S. Gebarski. Tumor-like Lesions of the Sellar Region, Wolfgang Saeger. Pituitary Tumors: Future Perspectives, Gregory M. Miller, Xun Zhang, and Anne Klibanski.