With Endoscopic Surgery, Patient Has Large Pituitary Tumor Removed And Goes Home Two Days Later

When Adam Mamelak, M.D., a neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, removed a large tumor from the pituitary gland of Riverside resident Sharon Moreland, he took a surgical route that many surgeons follow but used a tool that most do not. Mamelak inserted an endoscope consisting of a camera lens at the tip of a long tube through a nostril, entering the skull base through the sphenoid sinus, which is located deep within the skull and below the pituitary gland.

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Filed under: Endocrinology on April 26th, 2009