Importance Pituitary adenomas may hypersecrete hormones or cause mass effects. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment are important. Observations Prevalence of pituitary …
NA Tritos, KK Miller - Jama, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Pituitary adenomas are neoplasms of the pituitary adenohypophyseal cell lineage and include functioning tumors, characterized by the secretion of pituitary hormones …
T Brue, F Castinetti - Orphanet journal of rare diseases, 2016 - Springer
Secreting pituitary adenomas that cause acromegaly and Cushing's disease, as well as prolactinomas and thyrotroph adenomas, are uncommon, usually benign, slow-growing …
AF Daly, A Beckers - Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am, 2020 - books.google.com
Prolactinomas and nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas are the most frequent subtypes of clinically relevant adenomas, followed by acromegaly and Cushing's disease. The incidence …
Abstract This Consensus Statement from an international, multidisciplinary workshop sponsored by the Pituitary Society offers evidence-based graded consensus …
AF Daly, M Rixhon, C Adam… - The Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Context: Prevalence data are important for assessing the burden of disease on the health care system; data on pituitary adenoma prevalence are very scarce. Objective: The objective …
Prolactinomas are a common cause of reproductive/sexual dysfunction. Once other causes of hyperprolactinemia have been excluded with a careful history and physical examination …
BACKGROUND Pituitary adenomas display an array of hormonal and proliferative activity. Once primarily classified according to size (microadenomas,< 1 cm; macroadenomas,≥ 1 …
CA Steele, IA MacFarlane, J Blair… - European journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Objective To elucidate the long-term outcomes of pituitary adenomas diagnosed in childhood and adolescence, knowledge of which remains sparse. Design and methods A …