Thyrotropin-secreting pituitary tumours: Significance of "atypical adenomas" in a series of 10 patients and association with Hashimoto thyroiditis as a cause of delay in diagnosis

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 455-459

  Marucci, G ^a   Faustini Fustini, M ^b   Righi, A ^a   Pasquini, E ^b   Frank, G ^b   Agati, R ^b   Foschini, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTRIX; THYROID HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN SECRETING ADENOMA; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; THYROTROPIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66349126365     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2008.061523     Document Type: Article

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