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Update on familial pituitary tumors: from multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 to familial isolated pituitary adenoma.
Hormone research - 1 Jan 2009
Daly Adrian F, Tichomirowa Maria A, Tichomirow Maria A, Beckers Albert
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pituitary adenomas occur in a familial setting in about 5% of all cases and over half of these are due to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) and Carney complex (CNC). Since the late 1990s, we have described non-MEN1/CNC familial pituitary tumors that include all tumor phenotypes and have named this condition 'familial isolated pituitary adenoma' (FIPA). Clinical features of FIPA differ from...
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