Clinical characteristics and treatment strategies for pituitary adenoma associated with intracranial aneurysm

Table 3 Clinical outcome of pituitary adenoma patients with intracranial aneurysm

	No. of patients	Perioperative complications	Recurrence of pituitary adenoma	Death
Type I	13	1	3	0
Type II	2	0	0	0
Type III	8	0	1	0
Type IV	6	0	0	1

Knife radiosurgery and observation are applied for aneurysm
Type I surgical treatment for aneurysm and tumor, Type II aneurysm is treated with surgery and tumor is treated by observations, medicine, or Gamma Knife radiosurgery, Type III tumor is treated with surgery and observation is available for aneurysm, Type IV tumor is treated by observations, medicine or Gamma

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