Lymphocytic hypophysitis: Light and electron microscopic findings and correlation to clinical appearance

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-78

  Fehn, Marita ^a   Sommer, Clemens ^d   Lüdecke, Dieter K ^b   Plöckinger, Ursula ^c   Saeger, Wolfgang ^a,e  

^a Institute of Pathology of the Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunocytochemistry; Lymphocytic hypophysitis; Morphology; Pituitary tumor

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSITIS; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031775890     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02739954     Document Type: Article

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