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Pituitary Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Normal Human Volunteers: Occult Adenomas in the General Population

DOI

625

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0

References

1994

Year

Walter A. Hall, Mark G. Luciano, John L. Doppman, Nicholas J. Patronas, Edward H. Oldfield
Annals of Internal Medicine

Abstract

About 10% of the normal adult population have pituitary abnormalities on MRI scans that are compatible with the diagnosis of asymptomatic pituitary adenomas. Most pituitary adenomas remain asymptomatic and do not require treatment.