Cytopathologic features of pituitary carcinoma with cervical vertebral bone metastasis: A case report

Acta Cytologica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 225-230

  Ceyhan, Koray ^a,b   Yagmurlu, Banu ^a,c   Dogan, Basak Erguvan ^a,c   Erdogan, Nural ^a,b   Bulut, Safak ^a,b   Erekul, Selim ^a,c  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Pathology   (Turkey)

^c Department of Radiology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aspiration biopsy, fine needle; Metastasis; Pituitary neoplasms

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BONE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE METASTASIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; VERTEBRA;

EID: 33645464032     PISSN: 00015547     EISSN: 19382650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325938     Document Type: Article

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