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The tale in evolution: clarity, consistency and consultation, not contradiction and confusion

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  1. The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St. Vincents Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010, Australia

    Ken K. Y. Ho

  2. Departments of Medicine and Neurological Surgery, Pituitary Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Maria Fleseriu

  3. Department of Endocrinology, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK

    John Wass

  4. Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology Section, Pituitary Center Rotterdam, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Aart van der Lely

  5. Division of Endocrinology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Ariel Barkan

  6. Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy

    Andrea Giustina

  7. Division of Endocrinology, Santiago de Compostela University and Ciber OBN, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Felipe F. Casanueva

  8. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Anthony P. Heaney

  9. Division of Endocrinology and Center for Endocrine Tumors, Department of Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Nienke Biermasz

  10. Department of Medicine for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutritional Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

    Christian Strasburger

  11. Department of Medicine, Pituitary Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Shlomo Melmed

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Ho, K.K.Y., Fleseriu, M., Wass, J. et al. The tale in evolution: clarity, consistency and consultation, not contradiction and confusion. Pituitary 23, 476–477 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11102-019-01027-w

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