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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: Pituitary. 2021 Sep 27;25(1):201–209. doi: 10.1007/s11102-021-01189-6

Table 1.

Characteristics of adult pituitary tumor types

n % Age, year Size, mm Female, % White nonH, % Black nonH, % Asian/PI, % Hispanic, % OS, % Pathology confirm,%



Median IQR Median IQR 60 mos 95 %CI
Total 113,349 100.0 53 (39–65) 18 (9–27) 53.0 64.3 19.9 3.7 10.1 89.0 (88.7–89.2) 58.7
Pituitary adenoma 106,535 94.0 53 (39–66) 18 (9–26) 53.0 64.2 19.9 3.7 10.2 89.7 (89.5–89.9) 57.7
Craniopharyngioma 4,307 3.8 52 (40–63) 26 (19–34) 51.6 65.3 20.4 3.9 8.5 78.0 (76.5–79.3) 85.3
Uncommon tumor types 799 0.7 55 (42–68) 23 (17–31) 52.2 69.5 15.7 4.6 8.3 74.2 (70.7–77.4) 84.6
Tumor type not determined 1,708 1.5 55 (41–70) 17 (10–25) 55.0 65.7 20.6 2.8 8.9 79.2 (76.9–81.3) 36.5

IQR interquartile range, nonH non-Hispanic, OS overall survival, CI confdence interval