Cognitive performance after postoperative pituitary radiotherapy: A dosimetric study of the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-179

  Brummelman, Pauline ^a   Sattler, Margriet G A ^a   Meiners, Linda C ^a   Elderson, Martin F ^a   Dullaart, Robin P F ^a   Van Den Berg, Gerrit ^a   Koerts, Janneke ^b   Tucha, Oliver ^b   Wolffenbuttel, Bruce H R ^a   Van Den Bergh, Alfonsus C M ^a   Van Beek, André P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84856094245     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-11-0749     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Erridge SC, Conkey DS, Stockton D, Strachan MW, Statham PF, Whittle IR, Grant R, Kerr GR & Gregor A. Radiotherapy for pituitary adenomas: long-term efficacy and toxicity. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2009 93 597-601. (doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2009.09.011)
2. van den Bergh AC, van den Berg G, Schoorl MA, SLuiter WJ, van der Vliet AM, Hoving EW, Szabó BG, Langendijk JA, Wolffenbuttel BH & Dullaart RP. Immediate postoperative radiotherapy in residual nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma: beneficial effect on local control without additional negative impact on pituitary function and life expectancy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2007 67 863-869. (doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.09.049)
3. Gittoes NJ. Pituitary radiotherapy: current controversies. Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism 2005 16 407-413. (doi:10.1016/j.tem.2005.09.008)
4. Lawrence YR, Li XA, el Naqa I, Hahn CA, Marks LB, Merchant TE & Dicker AP. Radiation dose-volume effects in the brain. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2010 76 S20-S27. (doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp. 2009.02.091)
5. Gondi V, Tome WA & Mehta MP. Why avoid the hippocampus? A comprehensive review. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2010 97 370-376. (doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2010.09.013)
6. Marsh JC, Gielda BT, Herskovic AM & Abrams RA. Cognitive sparing during the administration of whole brain radiotherapy and prophylactic cranial irradiation: current concepts and approaches. Journal of Oncology 2010 2010 198208. (doi:10.1155/2010/198208)
7. Redmond KJ, Achanta P, Grossman SA, Armour M, Reyes J, Kleinberg L, Tryggestad E, Quinones-Hinojosa A & Ford EC. A radiotherapy technique to limit dose to neural progenitor cell niches without compromising tumor coverage. Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2011 104 579-587. (doi:10.1007/s11060-011-0530-8)
8. Armstrong CL, Hunter JV, Ledakis GE, Cohen B, Tallent EM, Goldstein BH, Tochner Z, Lustig R, Judy KD, Pruitt A, Mollman JE, Stanczak EM, Jo MY, Than TL & Phillips P. Late cognitive and radiographic changes related to radiotherapy: initial prospective findings. Neurology 2002 59 40-48. (Pubitemid 34742792)
9. Armstrong CL, Gyato K, Awadalla AW, Lustig R & Tochner ZA. A critical review of the clinical effects of therapeutic irradiation damage to the brain: the roots of controversy. Neuropsychology Review 2004 14 65-86. (doi:10.1023/B:NERV.0000026649.68781.8e)
10. Hahn CA, Zhou SM, Raynor R, Tisch A, Light K, Shafman T, Wong T, Kirkpatrick J, Turkington T, Hollis D & Marks LB. Dose-dependent effects of radiation therapy on cerebral blood flow, metabolism, and neurocognitive dysfunction. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2009 73 1082-1087. (doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.05.061)
11. Surma-aho O, Niemelä M, Vilkki J, Kouri M, Brander A, Salonen O, Paetau A, Kallio M, Pyykkönen J & Jääskeläinen J. Adverse long-term effects of brain radiotherapy in adult low-grade glioma patients. Neurology 2001 56 1285-1290. (Pubitemid 32455284)
12. Noad R, Narayanan KR, Howlett T, Lincoln NB & Page RC. Evaluation of the effect of radiotherapy for pituitary tumors on cognitive function and quality of life. Clinical Oncology 2004 16 233-237. (doi:10.1016/j.clon.2004.01. 012)
13. van Beek AP, van den Bergh AC, van den Berg LM, van den Berg G, Keers JC, Langendijk JA & Wolffenbuttel BH. Radiotherapy is not associated with reduced quality of life and cognitive function in patients treated for nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2007 68 986-991. (doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.01.017)
14. Guinan EM, Lowy C, Stanhope N, Lewis PD & Kopelman MD. Cognitive effects of pituitary tumors and their treatments: two case studies and an investigation of 90 patients. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 1998 65 870-876. (doi:10.1136/jnnp.65.6.870)
15. McCordMW, Buatti JM, Fennell EM, Mendenhall WM, Marcus RB, Rhoton AL, Grant MB & FriedmanWA. Radiotherapy for pituitary adenoma: long-term outcome and sequelae. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 1997 39 437-444. (doi:10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00335-0)
16. Peace KA, Orme SM, Thompson AR, Padayatty S, Ellis AW & Belchetz PE. Cognitive dysfunction in patients treated for pituitary tumors. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 1997 19 1-6. (doi:10.1080/ 01688639708403831)
17. Peace KA, Orme SM, Padayatty SJ, Godfrey HP & Belchetz PE. Cognitive dysfunction in patients with pituitary tumor who have been treated with transfrontal or transsphenoidal surgery or medication. Clinical Endocrinology 1998 49 391-396. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00543.x)
18. Abayomi OK. Pathogenesis of cognitive decline following therapeutic irradiation for head and neck tumors. Acta Oncologica 2002 41 346-351. (doi:10.1080/028418602760169389)
19. Addis DR, Moscovitch M & McAndrews MP. Consequences of hippocampal damage across the autobiographical memory network in left temporal lobe epilepsy. Brain 2007 130 2327-2342. (doi:10.1093/brain/awm166)
20. Pereira AG, PortuguezMW, da Costa DI, Azambuja LS, Marroni SP, da Costa JC & Pereira-Filho AA. Route learning performance: is it a hippocampus function? Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology 2011 24 4-10. (doi:10.1097/WNN. 0b013e318218c3d6)
21. Monje ML & Palmer T. Radiation injury and neurogenesis. Current Opinion in Neurology 2003 16 129-134. (doi:10.1097/00019052-200304000-00002)
22. Shallice T & Burgess P. The domain of supervisory processes and temporal organization of behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 1996 35 1405-1411. (doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0124)
23. Miller EK & Cohen JD. An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annual Review of Neuroscience 2001 24 167-202. (doi:10.1146/annurev. neuro.24.1.167)
24. Brummelman P, Elderson MF, Dullaart RP, van den Bergh AC, Timmer CA, van den Berg G, Koerts J, Tucha O, Wolffenbuttel BH & van Beek AP. Cognitive functioning in patients treated for nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenoma and the effects of pituitary radiotherapy. Clinical Endocrinology 2011 74 481-487. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03947.x)
25. Gazzaniga M, Ivry R & Mangun R. In Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd edn, p 75. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
26. Martin J. In Neuroanatomy Text and Atlas, 2nd edn. Stamford, CT: Appleton and Lange, 1996.
27. Yushkevich PA, Wang H, Pluta J, Das SR, Craige C, Avants BB, Weiner MW & Mueller S. Nearly automatic segmentation of hippocampal subfields in in vivo focal T2-weighted MRI. NeuroImage 2010 53 1208-1224. (doi:10.1016/j. neuroimage.2010.06.040)
28. van der Elst W, Van Boxtel MP, Van Breukelen GJ & Jolles J. Rey's verbal learning test: normative data for 1855 healthy participants aged 24-81 years and the influence of age, sex, education, and mode of presentation. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2005 11 290-302. (doi:10.1017/S1355617705050344)
29. Ruff RM, Light RH & Evans RW. The Ruff Figural Fluency Test: a normative study with adults. Developmental Neuropsychology 1987 3 37-51. (doi:10.1080/87565648709540362)
30. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. International Standard Classification of Education ISCED, 2006.
31. Spinhoven P, Ormel J, Sloekers PP, Kempen GI, Speckens AE & Van Hemert AM. A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in different groups of Dutch subjects. Psychological Medicine 1997 27 363-370. (doi:10.1017/S0033291796004382)
32. Stolk RP, Rosmalen JG, Postma DS, de Boer RA, Navis G, Slaets JP, Ormel J & Wolffenbuttel BH. Universal risk factors for multifactorial diseases: LifeLines: a three-generation population-based study. European Journal of Epidemiology 2008 23 67-74. (doi:10.1007/s10654-007-9204-4)
33. Duncan DB. Multiple range and multiple F tests. Biometrics 1955 11 1-42. (doi:10.2307/3001478)
34. Tiemensma J, Kokshoorn NE, Biermasz NR, Keijser BJ, Wassenaar MJ, Middelkoop HA, Pereira AM & Romijn JA. Subtle cognitive impairments in patients with long-term cure of Cushing's disease. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2010 95 2699-2714. (doi:10.1210/jc.2009-2032)
35. Jalali R, Mallick I, Dutta D, Goswami S, Gupta T, Munshi A, Desphande D & Sarin R. Factors influencing neurocognitive outcomes in young patients with benign and low-grade brain tumors treated with stereotactic conformal radiotherapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2010 77 974-979. (doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.06.025)
36. Douw L, Klein M, Fagel SS, van den Heuvel J, Taphoorn MJ, Aaronson NK, Postma TJ, Vandertop WP, Mooij JJ, Boerman RH, Beute GN, Sluimer JD, Slotman BJ, Reijneveld JC & Heimans JJ. Cognitive and radiological effects of radiotherapy in patients with low-grade glioma: long-term follow-up. Lancet Neurology 2009 8 810-818. (doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(09)70204-2)
37. Loeffler JS & Shih HA. Radiation therapy in the management of pituitary adenomas. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2011 96 1992-2003. (doi:10.1210/jc.2011-0251)
38. Thaker U, McDonagh AM, Iwatsubo T, Lendon CL, Pickering- Brown SM & Mann DM. Tau load is associated with apolipoprotein E genotype and the amount of amyloid beta protein, Abeta40, in sporadic and familial Alzheimer's disease. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 2003 29 35-44. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2990. 2003.00425.x)
39. Hashizume C, Mori Y, Kobayashi T, Shibamoto Y, Nagai A & Hayashi N. Stereotactic radiotherapy using Novalis for craniopharyngioma adjacent to optic pathways. Journal of Neuro- Oncology 2010 98 239-247. (doi:10.1007/s11060-010- 0180-2)