Clinical guidance and International Classification of Disease coding analysis in the 2017 WHO classification of pituitary neuroendocrine tumors

Abstract

The fourth edition of the latest classification of endocrine tumors has published by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017, in which the theoretical basis of classification has been updated. With the discovery of specific transcription factors, the classification of pituitary adenomas which could not be diagnosed definitively and confused easily, whose prognosis is impossible to determine, has been defined. In this paper, the classification, diagnosis and prognosis of each pituitary adenoma were discussed according to the latest classification, and the corresponding disease codes were summarized based on International Classification of Disease⁃10 (ICD⁃10) and ICD⁃O.

Keywords

• pituitary neoplasms
• world health organization
• international classification of diseases
• review