Pediatric Pituitary Adenomas at the Mayo Clinic, 1975 through 2014

Abstract

As an update to the publication, Pituitary adenomas in childhood and adolescence, (J Neurosurg 80:209–216, 1994) which looked at 36 pediatric pituitary adenoma surgical resections at the Mayo Clinic between 1975 and 1988: since 1975 to 2014, a total of 197 patients had pituitary adenomas were resected that were diagnosed when they were 21 years of age and under at the Mayo Clinic. 130 (66%) of these patients were diagnosed between 18 and 21 years of age. Complete pathological, laboratory and clinical data were available for retrospective review for 79 of these patients for surgeries performed between 1997 and 2014.