Pituitary adenomas in the elderly Clinical and pathological analysis.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Pituitary adenomas in the elderly Clinical and pathological analysis Of: Hu Jia Lv Shengtao Cuixin Guo Liu Jianhui Keywords: in old age; pituitary tumor; surgery; Immunohistochemistry Pituitary tumors are common intracranial benign tumor incidence rate of about 10% of intracranial tumors. Broader age distribution of pituitary tumor, more common 20 to 50 years old, 50 years of age are rare, and clinical study found that pituitary tumors of different ages have different clinical features, including elderly patients with pituitary tumors in both from the clinical manifestations, imaging features, or some of the biological behavior of tumor markers staining, with the young patients there is a big difference, so for the treatment of elderly patients with pituitary tumors should be different from young patients 1. But why the elderly pituitary tumor showed characteristics different from the present study the incidence of young people less. In the past 4 years in our hospital to hospital in elderly patients with pituitary tumors were retrospectively analyzed clinical data to understand the characteristics and pathogenesis of the disease. 1 Materials and methods 1.1 The patient data in patients aged 50 years 50 to 72 (mean 57.9) years, a total of 60 patients over the age of 20 cases, disease duration 2 months to 14 years (mean 32 months). Male: female was 30:18. Growth hormone adenoma in 4 cases (8.7%), 42 cases of non-functioning adenomas (91.3%). There were 38 cases, as the road signs (82.7%). Same extraction “50-year-old 80 patients, average age 34.4 years, duration of 1 w ~ 16 years (mean 43 months), male: female was 56:24, functional adenoma in 54 cases (67.5%), 26 cases of non-functioning adenomas (32.5%), with symptoms depending on road 30 cases (37.5%). 1.2 Methods All patients were retrospectively analyzed to understand the type of tumor endocrinology, imaging conditions (stroke and tumor invasion), analysis of