pituitary tumor
MONDO:0017611Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names pituitary tumor yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A benign or malignant neoplasm affecting the pituitary gland. The vast majority are adenomas arising from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0017611), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (9)
- ACTH-producing pituitary gland neoplasm
- benign neoplasm of pituitary gland
- functioning pituitary gland neoplasm
- growth hormone-producing pituitary gland neoplasm
- non-functioning pituitary gland neoplasm
- pituitary cancer
- pituitary gland adenoma
- posterior pituitary gland neoplasm
- prolactin producing pituitary tumor
Other names
16 names
Resolves to: pituitary tumor
- Also called
- neoplasm of pituitaryneoplasm of pituitary glandneoplasm of the pituitaryneoplasm of the pituitary glandpituitary gland neoplasmpituitary gland tumorpituitary gland tumourpituitary neoplasmtumor of pituitarytumor of pituitary glandtumor of the pituitarytumor of the pituitary glandtumour of pituitarytumour of pituitary glandtumour of the pituitarytumour of the pituitary gland