Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Corticotroph tumours are a heterogenous group of pituitary neuroendocrine tumours (PitNETs) in terms of their histological type, clinical presentation and tumour behaviour. These tumours are overrepresented in recurrent PitNETs and pose an important clinical and therapeutic challenge1. Although risk factors such as radiological invasion and elevated proliferative markers have been identified for PitNET recurrence, an improvement in proposed prognostic mo...