1. Quality-of-life evaluation for patients submitted to nasal endoscopic surgery for resection of pituitary tumours
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Ricardo Landini Lutaif Dolci, Américo Rubens Leite dos Santos, Paulo Roberto Lazarini, Nilza Maria Scalissi, José Viana Lima Junior, Jamile Lopes de Souza, Jeniffer Cristina Kozechen Rickli, Ana Carolina Mayor de Carvalho, Williams Escalante Encinas, and Lígia Tédde de Moraes more...
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Resection ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,Pituitary adenoma ,medicine ,Humans ,Pituitary Neoplasms ,Prospective Studies ,030223 otorhinolaryngology ,Prospective cohort study ,Pituitary tumours ,business.industry ,Endoscopy ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Patient Health Questionnaire ,Treatment Outcome ,Otorhinolaryngology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Quality of Life ,Neurosurgery ,business - Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the pre- and post-operative quality-of-life of patients submitted to the resection of pituitary adenoma via endoscopic transsphenoidal. This was a prospective study on patients submitted to endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery with the harvest of a nasoseptal flap who responded to the questionnaires FV-36 and SNOT-22 in the pre-operative and in months 1, 3 and 6 following the surgical procedure. A total of 42 patients submitted to pituitary adenoma resection surgery via endoscopic transsphenoidal with a nasoseptal flap were recruited. In all of the physical and mental domains (SF-36) evaluated, there was an improvement in the long-term evaluation (6 months), compared to the pre-operative, as well as in the site-specific evaluation (SNOT-22). The global and site-specific questionnaires in the 6th post-operative month follow-up presented an important improvement in all the physical and mental domains evaluated, as well as in nasal function in the perception of the patients submitted to pituitary adenoma resection via endoscopic transsphenoidal, demonstrating the safety and efficiency of the procedure. more...
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- 2020
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