Pituitary adenomas: Surgery and radiotherapy in the age of molecular diagnostics and pathology

摘要

Pituitary adenomas form a common but complex set of neoplasms that frequently appear in clinical practice. Radiologic series and autopsy studies drawn together by formal meta-analysis show that 1 in 7 people harbors a pituitary tumor. However, as adenomas with clinical effect appear in the general population in 1 out of 1000 people, approximately 300,000 people in the United States have (or have had) such a tumor at present, and they are relatively common in oncology practice.