The Search of miRNA Related to Invasive Growth of Nonfunctioning Gonadotropic Pituitary Tumors

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics.

	Discovery group	Validation group
NFPA patients (number of patients)	20	80
Age (years)
Range	36–73	34–80
Median	58	63
Sex (number of patients)
Male	17	44
Female	3	36
Histopathology (number of patients)
Gonadotroph PitNET	20	75
Null-cell/gonadotroph PitNET	0	5
Clinical classification (number of patients)
Invasive PitNET	11	47
Noninvasive PitNET	9	33