Pituitary carcinoma: A clinicopathologic study of 15 cases

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 804-812

  Pernicone, Peter J ^a,e   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Sebo, Thomas J ^a   Kovacs, Kalman T ^b   Horvath, Eva ^b   Young Jr , William F ^a   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^a   Davis, Dudley H ^a   Guthrie, Barton L ^c   Schoene, William C ^d  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

atypical adenoma; DNA ploidy; metastasis; p53; pituitary carcinoma; prognosis; proliferation indices; therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LOMUSTINE; PERGOLIDE; PROCARBAZINE; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN P53; VINCRISTINE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROLACTINOMA;

EID: 0031054097     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970215)79:4<804::AID-CNCR18>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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