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OCR: ch year, to These should be regularly withdrawn, e n GH assess the effects of pituitary irradiation nitary secretion. At these times the residual pi function should also be assessed, s all the No treatment currently available satisfie requirements of an ideal therapy levels to Surgery, if successful, rapidly reduces GI BGH and normal, but may not eradicate circulatin with large may cause hypopituitarism, particularly takes time tumours. Radiotherapy is successful but oportion ofto act and causes hypopituitarism in a p or cases, Medical treatment with octreotide ind. bromocriptine is only rarely used alone not always although it improves symptoms, it does eis as an reduce GH levels to normal. Its main us tary adjunct to ablative treatment of the pitu all three tumour. Often, after careful j ...