Pituitary adenoma with tumoral granulomatous reaction

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 86-90

  Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Silva, Ana Isabel ^a,b   Atkinson, John L D ^a   Nippoldt, Todd B ^a   Kaufmann, Timothy J ^a   Kovacs, Kalman ^c   Horvath, Eva ^c   Lloyd, Ricardo ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Granuloma; Inflammation; Pituitary; Silent corticotroph adenoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FUNGUS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADENOMA; BLOOD PRESSURE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 35348914289     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-007-0017-5     Document Type: Article

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