Pituitary choristoma composed of corticotrophs and adrenocortical cells in the sella turcica

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 427, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 613-617

  Oka, Hidehiro ^a,e   Kameya, Toru ^a   Sasano, Hironobu ^b   Aiba, Motohiko ^c   Kovacs, Kalman ^d   Horvath, Eva ^d   Yokota, Yukifumi ^e   Kawano, Nobuyuki ^e   Yada, Kenzo ^e  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenocortical cell; Choristoma; Corticotroph; Pituitary gland

Indexed keywords

BETA LIPOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKERATIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX CELL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CHORISTOMA; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DENSE BODY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MALE; MICROFILAMENT; MITOCHONDRION; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM;

EID: 0029983627     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00202893     Document Type: Article

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