Double pituitary lesions in three patients with Cushing’s disease

Pituitary

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 159-168

  Meij, Björn P ^a   Lopes, Maria Beatriz S ^a   Vance, Mary Lee ^b   Thorner, Michael O ^b   Laws, Edward R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cushing's disease; Double adenoma; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Nodular hyperplasia; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; DELAYED PUBERTY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBID OBESITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SURGERY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADENOMA; ADULT; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034433558     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011499609096     Document Type: Article

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