Erschienen in:
16.12.2016 | Editorial
The role of AIP mutations in pituitary adenomas: 10 years on
verfasst von:
Adrian F. Daly, Albert Beckers
Erschienen in:
Endocrine
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Ausgabe 2/2017
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Excerpt
Pituitary adenomas causing clinical symptoms occur in about 1/1000 of the general population, making them one of the main tumors encountered by endocrinologists [
1]. In practice, pituitary tumor etiology is rarely known, with 5% of cases having a genetic or hereditary background [
2]. These include syndromes like multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) 1, familial isolated pituitary adenomas (FIPA), MEN4, Carney complex, McCune-Albright syndrome and X-linked acrogigantism (X-LAG), among others [
3,
4]. …