Null Cell Adenoma

Your pituitary gland is in the center of your brain, just above the back of your nose. While it’s about the size of a pea, this tiny gland serves a big purpose, producing many hormones your body needs to grow, reproduce, metabolize your food and more.

Pituitary null cell adenoma are benign tumors in the pituitary gland. Though they are quite small when they develop, these pituitary tumors are often hard to detect until they start causing symptoms, which usually doesn’t happen until they’ve grown large enough to press on nerves or pituitary cells.

Your pituitary gland produces hormones that control the functions of many other endocrine glands. When a pituitary tumor is compressing it, hormone production slows, and the results impact men and women differently.

For men, a null cell pituitary adenoma can cause erectile dysfunction, muscle pain, fatigue, depression and weight gain.

In pre-menopausal women, symptoms of null cell pituitary adenoma include irregular menstrual periods and infertility.

Pituitary null cell adenoma can also pressure the optic nerves, which can cause vision problems in both men and women.

Precise removal means improved recovery. That’s why we use advanced techniques to pinpoint a null cell pituitary adenoma with millimeter precision.

With endovascular transsphenoidal surgery, we can remove the tumor during surgery through the nose. Removing the tumor through your nasal cavity using this minimally invasive procedure allows your surgeons to either remove or reduce the size of the tumor so your pituitary gland can function normally again. Compared to open surgery, your recovery will also be faster since no incision will be made.