Folliculo-stellate cells of "true dendritic" type are involved in the inflammatory microenvironment of tumor immunosurveillance of pituitary adenomas

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Vajtai, Istvan ^a   Kappeler, Andreas ^a   Sahli, Rahel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 34547256500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-2-20     Document Type: Article

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