Pituitary adenoma with rich folliculo-stellate cells and mucin-producing epithelia arising in a 2-year-old girl

Pathology International

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 600-605

  Min, Hye Sook ^a   Lee, Seung June ^a   Kim, Seung Ki ^a   Park, Sung Hye ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Folliculo stellate cell; Mucin producing epithelium; Pituitary adenoma; Rathke's pouch; Retrodifferentiation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKERATIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MUCIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SIZE; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; KERATINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUCINS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; S100 PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34547666451     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2007.02145.x     Document Type: Article

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