Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The aim of the Swedish Pituitary Register – the Swedish Pituitary Study Group’s quality register – is to guarantee that all patients with pituitary tumours get equivalent diagnostic evaluation and treatment, as well as to evaluate given therapy. In this study, patients diagnosed with acromegaly from 1991 are described.Methods: Data from 557 patients (275 men/282 women), median age 51 years (range 4–87), with acromegaly wer...