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The official publication of the Pituitary Society and the Growth Hormone Research Society

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Pituitary - IMPORTANT: Nomenclature Changes

Thank you for choosing Pituitary, the journal of the Pituitary Society and GH Research Society. We would like to bring to your attention a nomenclature update by the journal Editorial Board. Due to their invariably benign and non-metastatic nature, pituitary tumors will continue to be termed adenomas. If these lesions are more aggressive, then the term tumor is appropriate. ( 1-4).

If use of the term Pit-NET is critical to your manuscript, we ask that you add the phrase ‘Pit-NET, also known as a pituitary adenoma’ once in the Title, Abstract, Introduction, and Discussion.


1. Ho KKY, Fleseriu M, Wass J, van der Lely A, Barkan A, Giustina A, Casanueva FF, Heaney AP, Biermasz N, Strasburger C, Melmed S. A tale of pituitary adenomas: to NET or not to NET : Pituitary

Society position statement. Pituitary. 2019;22(6):569-73. Epub 2019/10/02. doi: 10.1007/s11102-019-00988-2. PubMed PMID: 31571098.

2. Ho K, Fleseriu M, Kaiser U, Salvatori R, Brue T, Lopes MB, Kunz P, Molitch M, Camper SA, Gadelha M, Syro LV, Laws E, Reincke M, Nishioka H, Grossman A, Barkan A, Casanueva F, Wass J,

Mamelak A, Katznelson L, van der Lely AJ, Radovick S, Bidlingmaier M, Boguszewski M, Bollerslev J, Hoffman AR, Oyesiku N, Raverot G, Ben-Shlomo A, Fowkes R, Shimon I, Fukuoka H, Pereira AM,

Greenman Y, Heaney AP, Gurnell M, Johannsson G, Osamura RY, Buchfelder M, Zatelli MC, Korbonits M, Chanson P, Biermasz N, Clemmons DR, Karavitaki N, Bronstein MD, Trainer P, Melmed S. Pituitary Neoplasm Nomenclature Workshop: Does Adenoma Stand the Test of Time? J Endocr Soc. 2021;5(3):bvaa205. Epub 2021/02/20. doi: 10.1210/jendso/bvaa205. PubMed PMID: 33604494; PMCID: PMC7874572.

3. Ho KKY, Kaiser UB, Chanson P, Gadelha M, Wass J, Nieman L, Little A, Aghi MK, Raetzman L, Post K, Raverot G, Borowsky AD, Erickson D, Castano JP, Laws ER, Zatelli MC, Sisco J, Esserman L, Yuen KCJ,

Reincke M, Melmed S. Pituitary adenoma or neuroendocrine tumour: the need for an integrated prognostic classification. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2023;19(11):671-8. Epub 2023/08/18. doi: 10.1038/s41574-023-00883-8. PubMed PMID: 37592077.

4. Ho KKY, Melmed S. Letter to the Editor from Ho and Melmed: Clinical Practice and Nomenclature of Pituitary Neoplasms: Common Sense Must Prevail. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2024. Epub

2024/05/15. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgae332. PubMed PMID: 38742619.

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