[Neuro-ophthalmological alternations in patients with pituitary adenomas and intrasellar arachnoidocele].

UNLABELLED: INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND

METHODS

We studied 103 patients with hypophyseal tumors aged between 15 and 74, with a marked predominance of females. Results. Of these, 49 patients were diagnosed as having macroadenomas (47.5%), 27 with microadenomas (26.2%), 25 with arachnoidoceles (24.3%) and two with craniopharyngiomas (1.9%). Of the total there were 78.9% functioning tumors of which the commonest was prolactinoma.

CONCLUSIONS

Kinetic and static perimetry complement each other as diagnostic methods to obtain information about damage to the visual pathway caused by these tumors.