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ArticleEndocrine oncology (Bristol, England)2025

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Katherine I Wolf, Zhonglin Lu, Elizabeth A Hesseltine, Ka-Kit Wong, Francis P Worden, Tobias Else

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Article in Endocrine oncology (Bristol, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Therapy for aggressive pituitary tumors and carcinomas.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Katherine I WolfDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8540-8248
Zhonglin LuDepartment of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Elizabeth A HesseltineDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Ka-Kit WongDepartment of Radiology, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Francis P WordenDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Tobias ElseDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abstract: Metastatic pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) are rare and often aggressive. Patients should be evaluated for metastatic disease when their biochemical presentation is discordant with pituitary tumor burden or when they present with non-pituitary, site-specific symptoms. Here, we describe the case of a 55-year-old male with an ACTH-secreting PitNET and more than a decade of recurrent transsphenoidal resections, gamma knife irradiation, and therapy with somatostatin analogs and steroidogenesis inhibitors before uncovering metastatic osseous deposits. Only after initiation of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with Learning points: Patients with aggressive, recurrent PitNET and discordant biochemical and structural data or site-specific symptoms should be evaluated for evolution of disease, including metastases.There are multiple alternative agents beyond cytotoxic chemotherapy for progressive metastatic PitNETs, including non-endocrine targeted therapies, immunotherapy, and peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT).PRRT has successfully been used in patients with metastatic PitNET without significant adverse events while stabilizing tumor burden and clinical hormone excess.

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177Lu-DOTATATECushing syndromedosimetrypituitary neuroendocrine tumorPRRT

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PMID41126982
PMCPMC12538272

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