Exercise #3
Patient had CT scan of the head on 2/24/04 showing a large prolactinoma of the pituitary gland. The patient started on bromocriptine to shrink the tumor in March 2004. The patient had gamma knife surgery on 10/1/04.
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- Surgical procedure of primary site
00 - None
- Surgical margins of primary site
8 - No primary site surgery
- Scope of regional lymph node surgery
0 - None (None instead of not applicable because pituitary is not one of the sites listed in FORDS to use "not applicable" for lymph node surgery.)
- Radiation treatment volume
02 - No radiation treatment
- Regional treatment modality (radiation)
43 - Gamma knife
- Chemotherapy
00 - None
- Hormone therapy
01 - Hormone therapy as first course therapy (bromocriptine is hormone treatment for pituitary tumors.)
- Immunotherapy
00 - None
- Hematologic transplant and endocrine procedures
00 - None
