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 **Classically: visual field defects (bitemporal hemianopsia).
 **Others (increased intracranial pressure): headache, nausea, vomiting.
+**Tumor of adults.
 Classification:
 #Microadenoma <= 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:
-*May be classified by what they secrete.  ''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.
+  ''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====