PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Janet W. Bay
AU  - Leslie R. Sheeler
TI  - Results of transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing’s disease
DP  - 1988 Jul 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 357--364
VI  - 55
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/4/357.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/4/357.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1988 Jul 01; 55
AB  - Thirty-six patients with Cushing’s disease underwent transsphenoidal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic between January 1976 and August 1986. Adenomas were identified, removed, and verified pathologically in 28 patients (78%); in all cases, hypercortisolism was corrected. Overall, 31 of the 36 patients (8 6 %) were cured initially (biochemically and clinically). No operative mortality or permanent neurological sequelae were sustained. Follow-up ranged from four to 120 months. There have been three recurrences after an initial apparent cure.