====== Cushing's disease surgery ====== {{ ::pituitary_corticotroph_adenoma_surgery.jpg?300|}} ===== Transsphenoidal Surgery for Cushing's disease ===== [[Transsphenoidal Surgery for Cushing's disease]] ---- see [[Corticotroph adenoma medical treatment]]. The surgical management of [[Pituitary corticotroph adenoma]] is often complicated by difficulties detecting the [[adenoma]]. Various diagnostic modalities are used when conventional [[magnetic resonance imaging]] ([[MRI]]) is negative or inconclusive. Potts et al. sought to analyze the use of two such modalities in the surgical management of [[Cushing's disease]]: (1) Cavernous/[[Inferior petrosal sinus sampling]] (central venous sampling, CVS) for [[adrenocorticotropic hormone]] and (2) dynamic MRI (dMRI). ---- In 2002 Perrin et al., published the technical aspects and surgical strategy for removal ((Perrin G, Stevenaert A, Jouanneau E. [Technical aspects and surgical strategy for removal of corticotroph pituitary neuroendocrine tumor]. Neurochirurgie. 2002 May;48(2-3 Pt 2):186-214. Review. French. PubMed PMID: 12058125.)). see [[pituitary neuroendocrine tumor surgery]]. ---- ===== References =====