“…Transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) remains the procedure of choice with immediate post-operative remission rates ranging between 59 and 94% in major centres (6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21). The reason for this wide range is the variability in defining remission in each study, the inclusion or not of macroadenomas, and the number of the patients studied, rendering the interpretation of results problematic.…”