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. 2022 Jun 15;12:9919. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-12980-1

Figure 4.

Figure 4

(A) Mean postoperative GH nadir 24-48hrs after surgical resection in acromegaly cohort (n=26) (B) Preoperative and postoperative (3-12 months) IGF-1 levels in acromegaly cohort (n=25), two-tailed unpaired t-test demonstrates statistically significance between preoperative and postoperative IGF-1 levels (p<0.0001) (C) A graphical visual summary of the important findings from Table 1, 2 and 3 and demonstrates that somatotroph adenomas have a predilection to invade the cavernous sinus irrespective of tumor size. Using a Chi square test, we demonstrate that the effect that somatotrophs have on predicting cavernous sinus invasion was present across all Knosp grades 0-4 (*p<0.02) and even present across low Knosp grades 0-2 (**p<.05).