Pituitary adenoma with "honeycomb Golgi" appearance showing a phenotypic change at recurrence from clinically nonfunctioning to typical Cushing disease

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-130

  Sano, Toshiaki ^g   Kovacs, Kalman ^a   Asa, Sylvia L ^b   Yamada, Shozo ^c   Sanno, Naoko ^d   Yokoyama, Shunichi ^e   Takami, Hiroshi ^f  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^e KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticotroph adenoma; Cushing disease; Female gonadotroph adenoma; Honeycomb Golgi; Nonfunctioning adenoma; Pituitary adenoma; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GOLGI COMPLEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; ADENOMA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADENOMA; CASE REPORT; CORTICOTROPIN; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GOLGI APPARATUS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036020547     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/EP:13:2:125     Document Type: Article

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