Timing of Surgical Intervention in Patients with Pituitary Apoplexy and Cranial Nerves Deficits: Single-Center Experience
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Pituitary tumors account for up to 15% of all intracranial tumors, 90% of which are adenomas. One of the rare but urgent presentations of a pituitary tumor is pituitary apoplexy (PA). Typically, patients with PA present emergently with a symptom cluster that may include sudden severe headache, nausea, vomiting, and new-onset impairment of the visual acuity with or without visual field defect. Occasionally, these patients may exhibit other cranial nerve palsies. These manifestations are due to the sudden increase of the tumor size caused by intratumor hemorrhage and/or infarction. Usually, hypopituitarism develops as a result of gland ischemia. After patient stabilization and hormonal replacement, surgical decompression is often recommended with controversy on the timing of intervention. In this case series, we describe our experience regarding the cranial nerve recovery in patients with pituitary apoplexy following the endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal (EETS).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
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