An immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study of a follicle-stimulating hormone-secreting gonadotroph adenoma occurring in a 10-year-old girl

Medical Electron Microscopy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-31

  Tashiro, H ^a   Katabuchi, H ^a   Ohtake, H ^a   Yoshioka, A ^a   Matsumura, S ^a   Suenaga, Y ^a   Nagamura, Y ^b   Matsuura, K ^a   Okamura, H ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yatsushiro General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Childhood; FSH; Gonadotroph adenoma; Immunohistochemistry; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033787345     PISSN: 09184287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007950000004     Document Type: Article

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