A spectrum of behaviour in silent corticotroph pituitary adenomas

SE Baldeweg, JR Pollock, M Powell… - British journal of …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… Silent corticotroph adenoma (SCA) is defined as a pituitary tumour with evidence of
immunoreactive adrenocortitroph hormone (ACTH) in tumour cells in the absence of clinical …

Silent corticotroph adenomas have unique recurrence characteristics compared with other nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas

HY Cho, SW Cho, SW Kim, CS Shin… - Clinical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… Silent corticotroph adenomas (SCAs) are defined as clinically nonfunctioning pituitary
adenomas (NFPAs) with positive immunoreactivity for adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). …

Silent corticotroph adenomas: Emory University cohort and comparison with ACTH-negative nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas

AG Ioachimescu, L Eiland, VS Chhabra… - …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
… Silent corticotroph adenomas (SCAs) were first described in 1978 as clinically
nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas (NFPAs) staining positive for corticotropin (ACTH) by …

Silent corticotroph adenomas

N Karavitaki, O Ansorge, JAH Wass - Arquivos Brasileiros de …, 2007 - SciELO Brasil
… Silent corticotroph pituitary adenomas (SCA) are defined as pituitary adenomas showing …
They account for 1.1-6% of surgically removed pituitary adenomas. Currently, two distinct …

Management of aggressive pituitary adenomas and pituitary carcinomas

A Heaney - Journal of neuro-oncology, 2014 - Springer
… In some pituitary tumor subtypes such as in corticotroph tumors, complications of hormonal
… hypersecretion in invasive/recurrent corticotroph pituitary tumors is of paramount importance. …

Clinical features of silent corticotroph adenomas

H Alahmadi, D Lee, JR Wilson, C Hayhurst, O Mete… - Acta …, 2012 - Springer
… prospectively maintained database of all pituitary tumors treated at our institution between …
examination on all clinically non-functioning pituitary adenomas for ACTH was not carried out, …

[HTML][HTML] Silent corticotroph pituitary adenomas: clinical characteristics, long-term outcomes, and management of disease recurrence

BA Strickland, S Shahrestani, RG Briggs… - Journal of …, 2021 - thejns.org
… Our findings suggest that SCAs are relatively aggressive pituitary adenomas with a higher
propensity for tumor progression. These data corroborate findings from prior studies, lending …

Malignant transformation in non-functioning pituitary adenomas (pituitary carcinoma)

N Lenders, A McCormack - Pituitary, 2018 - Springer
tumour stabilisation in a patient with a silent corticotroph PC … cases (one corticotroph, one
immunonegative tumour) were … another corticotroph tumour continued to demonstrate tumour

Silent corticotroph adenomas

A Ben-Shlomo, O Cooper - Pituitary, 2018 - Springer
… The 2017 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of pituitary adenomas defines
corticotroph adenomas as those that arise from adenohypophyseal cells of TPIT lineage and …

Silent corticotroph adenomas: further clinical and pathological observations

JA Lopez, BK Kleinschmidt-Demasters, CI Sze… - Human pathology, 2004 - Elsevier
… Silent corticotroph cell pituitary adenomas are tumors that, by … Unlike many types of
pituitary adenomas in which the … In addition, we report double pituitary adenomas in 1 patient …