%A"Tazawa, Satoru [Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan). School of Medicine]" %D1991 %I; %2 %J[] %K62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE, AUDITORY ORGANS, CAT SCANNING, ADENOMAS, HEMORRHAGE, INFLAMMATION, PITUITARY GLAND, SINUSES, SURGERY, BODY, COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY, DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DISEASES, ENDOCRINE GLANDS, GLANDS, MEDICINE, NEOPLASMS, ORGANS, PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES, SENSE ORGANS, SYMPTOMS, TOMOGRAPHY, 550602* - Medicine- External Radiation in Diagnostics- (1980-) %PMedium: X; Size: Pages: 234-244 %TCT after transsphenoidal surgery %XTwo hundred and ten CT studies of 95 patients after transsphenoidal surgery were reviewed. Spheno-ethmoid opacificaiton, intrasellar hematoma and gas bubbles were noted within 2 weeks after surgery. Bone defect of the sellar floor and bone stent were seen on coronal scans in most cases. The packing material frequently disappeared on follow-up studies. Hormonal assessment of the functioning tumor, according to which the effect of treatment was evaluated, was correlated with CT findings. Because differentiation between postoperative changes and residual mass was difficult, there was no definite CT criteria to indicate residual functioning tumor except upward convexity of the diaphragma sellae on CT more than 3 months after surgery. Initial follow up CT study is recommended to be performed at about 3 months after surgery, at which time the immediate postoperative inflammatory changes have been disappeared. The incidence of recurrence was 3/47 (6%), which was shown on follow-up CT from 4 to 10 years after surgery. Therefore, subsequent CT study should be done in every year or two, taking the clinical symptoms and hormonal data into consideration. (author). %0Journal Article %N;Journal ID: ISSN 0048-0428; CODEN: NHGZA %1 %CJapan %Rhttps://doi.org/ Journal ID: ISSN 0048-0428; CODEN: NHGZA JPN %GJapanese