Surgery vs preoperative pharmacological therapy and surgery: Surgery for recurrent or persistent disease
- Population
- adults with growth‐hormone secreting pituitary adenomas
- Intervention
- Surgery
- Comparison
- preoperative pharmacological therapy and surgery
- Outcome
- Surgery for recurrent or persistent disease
It is very uncertain whether surgery alone changes surgery for recurrent or persistent disease compared with preoperative pharmacological therapy and surgery (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Surgery alone vs preoperative pharmacological therapy and surgery Surgery for recurrent or persistent disease · adults with growth‐hormone secreting pituitary adenomas It is very uncertain whether surgery alone changes surgery for recurrent or persistent disease compared with preoperative pharmacological therapy and surgery (very low certainty). Surgical and non‐surgical interventions for primary and salvage treatment of growth hormone‐secreting… (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.48 [0.05, 5.06] | 1 study · 61 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical and non‐surgical interventions for primary and salvage treatment of growth hormone‐secreting pituitary adenomas in adults 2024 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
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