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ArticlePituitary2020

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

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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Article in Pituitary, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Guideline
  2. Review
  3. Pituitary adenomas: biology, nomenclature and clinical classification.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025
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  8. Classification of neuroendocrine neoplasms: lights and shadows.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2021
    Review
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  10. Genetics of Acromegaly and Gigantism.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021
    Review
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  13. Best Achievements in Pituitary and Adrenal Diseases in 2020.Endocrinology and metabolism (Seoul, Korea) · 2021
    Review
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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 and Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 384 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, 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 LelyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology Section, Pituitary Center Rotterdam, 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 de Compostela, 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 MelmedDepartment of Medicine, Pituitary Center, 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.

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AdenomaPituitary DiseasesPituitary NeoplasmsHumansPituitary GlandReferral and Consultation

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