Table 3 Radiotherapy in CYP with Cushing disease

From: Consensus guideline for the diagnosis and management of pituitary adenomas in childhood and adolescence: Part 2, specific diseases

Ref.

Number of children included

Number of children cured

Timescale for cure

Jennings et al. (1977)110

15

12

18 months (10 children within 9 months)

Thoren et al. (1986)263

8

7

12 months

Storr et al. (2003)108

7

7

0.94 years (range 0.25–2.86 years)

Acharya et al. (2010)109

8

4

9–18 months

Shrivastava et al. (2019)115

24

19

12 months (range, 2–42 months)