Endocrine Abstracts

Although most pituitary tumors are benign, some are invasive or aggressive. In the absence of specific markers of malignancy, only tumors with metastases are considered malignant. Recently we identified a marker set of invasion, proliferation and aggressiveness in prolactin (PRL) tumors1. We will present the prognostic value of histological and molecular markers in PRL tumors and their usefulness in other types of pituitary tumors.Forty-five patients, 23...