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Skull Base and Pituitary Tumor Center

Surgeons

Carl B. Heilman, MD
Julian K. Wu, MD, FACS
James Kryzanski, MD

Skull base and pituitary disorders are treated by a multidisciplinary clinical service with a team of specialists. We specialize in the treatment of skull base disorders utilizing endoskopic techniques, including endoscopic pituitary surgery. Tufts-New England Medical Center provides state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic expertise in all aspects of endocrinology, neuroradiology, neuroophthalmology, surgery, and radiation therapy for pituitary and hypothalamic disorders.

Skull base disorders treated at the Boston Institute of Neurosurgery

Tumors that occur throughout the skull base and body
  • Meningiomas
  • Schwannomas
  • Osteomas
  • Metastatic lesions to the bone
  • Chondrosarcomas
  • Chordomas
  • Glomus tumor or Paraganglioma
  • Tumors occuring in the Anterior cranial fossa
  • Juvenile angiofibroma
  • Esthesioneuroblastoma
  • Inverted papilloma
  • Lymphomas
  • Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
  • Orbital gliomas
  • Orbital tumors
  • Rhabdomyosarcomas
  • Osteogenic sarcomas
  • Ossifying fibromas
  • Esthesioneuroblastoma
  • Squamous cell carcinoma
  • Adenoid cystic carcinoma
  • Tumors occuring in the Middle cranial base and Posterior fossa
  • Craniopharyngiomas
  • Temporal bone tumors
  • Cholesteatomas
  • Enchondromas
  • Epidermoids
  • Dermoids
  • Chondromas
  • Chordomas
  • Disorders treated at the Pituitary Treatment Center:

  • Hormonally active pituitary adenomas
  • Endocrine inactive pituitary adenomas
  • Pituitary apoplexy
  • Recurrent pituitary tumors
  • Hypopituitarism
  • Other pituitary pathologies
  • Craniopharyngiomas
  • Hypothalamic tumors
  • Rathke's cleft cysts
  • Services provided by the Pituitary Treatment Center:

  • Comprehensive outpatient evaluation by a neurosurgeon or endocrinologist specializing in pituitary disorders
  • Hormonal evaluation and hormonal replacement therapy
  • Minimally invasive, endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary surgery (requiring no facial incisions or nasal packing) using endoscopic approaches
  • Medical treatment for patients with prolactinomas, acromegaly, and Cushing's disease
  • Gamma Knife (stereotactic) radiosurgery for surgically inaccessible or recurrent pituitary tumors
  • Neuroophthalmological evaluations
  • Second opinions and follow-up evaluation
  • This page last updated: Thursday, June, 01 2006


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    Boston Institute of Neurosurgery - Tufts University Department of Neurosurgery
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    Phone: 617-636-5858,
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    Last Updated: Thursday, June, 01 2006