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Inactive Adenomas

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Oncology of CNS Tumors

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Pituitary adenomas are benign tumors of the adenohy-pophysis and are the most common sellar neoplasm. Most tumors remain undiagnosed, and autopsy series have reported a frequency of up to 27% [41]. When data have been pooled from multiple surgical series, however, the frequency appears closer to 11% [41]. Modern CT and MRI series substantiate this latter figure [6, 20, 41]. The overwhelming majority of these undiagnosed tumors are microadenomas [41].

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Jane, J.A., Dumont, A.S., Sheehan, J.P., Laws, E.R. (2010). Inactive Adenomas. In: Tonn, JC., Westphal, M., Rutka, J.T. (eds) Oncology of CNS Tumors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02874-8_12

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