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The hypofysic adenoma is a benign tumor that accounts for 10% of the intrakranial masses. The treatment methods include medical, surgical and radiotherapy. Endonazal transfenoidal endoscopic method was first introduced in 1963 with the recommendation by Guiot and his colleagues for the use of the endocope in the transfenoidal approach. In the Neurosurgery Clinic of the Medical Faculty of the Black Sea Technical University between 2016 and 2021 43 patients undergo purely endoscopic endonational transphenoidal surgery were examined retrospectively. Studying the patients’ files, age, gender, application complaints, preoperative and postoperative laboratory and visual findings, postoperative complications, pathological diagnoses were evaluated. Discussions and Results: The endoscopic transphenoidal approach is presented in the literature that it is useful in the treatment of cellar and parasellar lesions. The assistant devices used, the experience of the surgeon, the learning curve and the structure of the tumor can also be effective in the surgery.

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