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ReviewPituitary2019

A tale of pituitary adenomas: to NET or not to NET : Pituitary Society position statement.

Ken K Y Ho, Maria Fleseriu, John Wass, Aart van der Lely, Ariel Barkan, Andrea Giustina, Felipe F Casanueva, Anthony P Heaney, Nienke Biermasz, Christian Strasburger and 1 more

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Review in Pituitary, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Guideline
  2. Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. Pituitary adenomas: biology, nomenclature and clinical classification.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025
    Review
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumor: Is It Benign or Malignant?Brain tumor research and treatment · 2023
    Review
  16. Review
  17. Review
  18. Review
  19. Review
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Ken K Y HoThe Garvan Institute of Medical Research, St. Vincents Hospital, The University of New South Wales, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, 2010, Australia. k.ho@garvan.org.au.ORCID 0000-0002-2508-9588
Maria FleseriuDepartments of Medicine and Neurological Surgery, Pituitary Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
John WassDepartment of Endocrinology, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Aart van der LelyPituitary Center Rotterdam, Endocrinology Section, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Ariel BarkanDivision of Endocrinology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Andrea GiustinaDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Felipe F CasanuevaDivision of Endocrinology, Santiago de Compostela University and Ciber OBN, Santiago, Spain.
Anthony P HeaneyDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Nienke BiermaszDivision of Endocrinology and Center for Endocrine Tumors, Department of Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Christian StrasburgerDepartment of Medicine for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutritional Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Shlomo MelmedPituitary Center, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdenomaHumansPituitary GlandPituitary NeoplasmsSocieties, MedicalUnited StatesNeuroendocrine tumorPituitary adenomaTumor classification

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.