“…However, the number of these patients in our study was small (10 patients, nine macroadenomas and one microadenoma, most of them with follow‐up times of 8–20 years) and, thus, we do not consider this factor to have changed dramatically our results. In our series, PIs appeared more frequently in men, although this was not confirmed by others (11–13). In addition, men were more likely to harbour a macroadenoma than a microadenoma in comparison with women, in accordance with previous reports (11,13).…”