Sakata, Kiyohiko
Hashimoto, Aya
Takeshige, Nobuyuki http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5343-1574
Orito, Kimihiko
Nagayama, Ayako
Ashida, Kenji http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8753-6016
Nomura, Masatoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0725-3161
Morioka, Motohiro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7179-1258
Article History
Received: 14 December 2023
Accepted: 14 April 2024
First Online: 25 April 2024
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not report animal studies. This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Kurume University School of Medicine (approval number: 18019).
: All the participants concurred with the proposed treatment plan after all the options for the management of non-functioning pituitary adenomas and prolactinomas had been clearly explained. Informed consent was obtained from all the participants in the study.