Silent mixed corticotroph and somatotroph macroadenomas presenting with pituitary apoplexy

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 435-440

  Abe, T ^a   Taniyama, M ^a   Xu, B ^c   Ozawa, H ^a   Kawamura, N ^a   Shimazu, M ^a   Sasaki, K ^a   Izumiyama, H ^a   Kushima, M ^a   Kuwazawa, J ^b   Sano, T ^c   Matsumoto, K ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yamanashi Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticotroph; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; Silent adenoma; Somatotroph

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0034774840     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010100396     Document Type: Article

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