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  • Title: [Medical treatment of prolactin-secreting pituitary adenomas. Influence of the size of the adenoma].
    Author: Kuhn JM, Gancel A, Weinstein A, Courtois H, Schrub JC, Tadie M, Wolf LM.
    Journal: Presse Med; 1985 Mar 02; 14(9):525-8. PubMed ID: 3157164.
    Abstract:
    Forty-two patients with prolactin-secreting pituitary adenoma (prolactinoma) demonstrated by a radiologically abnormal sella turcica and hyperprolactinaemia were treated with bromocriptine. Baseline serum prolactin levels, which before treatment correlated with the size of the adenoma, returned to normal under bromocriptine in 30 out of 36 cases; in 6 female patients, however, they were lowered but remained moderately high. The dose of bromocriptine and the time required for normalization of prolactinaemia correlated with the size of the tumour. In 11 patients with macroadenoma bromocriptine dosage and prolactinaemia were inversely correlated; in 8 of these the adenoma was reduced in size. In 12 cases where the long-term treatment was interrupted, prolactinaemia rose again, suggesting that the medical treatment alone has no lasting curative effect.
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