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**Classically: visual field defects (bitemporal hemianopsia). | **Classically: visual field defects (bitemporal hemianopsia). | ||
**Others (increased intracranial pressure): headache, nausea, vomiting. | **Others (increased intracranial pressure): headache, nausea, vomiting. | ||
**Tumor of adults. | |||
Classification: | Classification: | ||
#Microadenoma <= 1 cm. | #Microadenoma <= 1 cm. | ||
#Macroadenoma > 1 cm. | #Macroadenoma > 1 cm. | ||
*May be classified by what they secrete. | |||
#Functional (endocrine hyperfunction). | |||
#*Acromegaly/giantism. | |||
#*Hyperprolactinemia. | |||
#*Cushing disease. | |||
#*Hyperthyroidism. | |||
#*Significant elevation of FSH/LH. | |||
#Clinically nonfunctioning. | |||
Notes: | Notes: | ||
''Cushing disease'' is due to pituitary gland hypersecretion of ACTH (due to a pituitary adenoma ''or'' CRH hypersecretion from the hypothalamus).<ref name=Ref_PBoD8_1148>{{Ref PBoD8|1148}}</ref> [[Cushing syndrome]] is hypercortisolism ''not'' due to pituitary gland pathology. | |||
====Familial pituitary adenomas==== | ====Familial pituitary adenomas==== |