Silent subtype 3 pituitary adenoma: A clinicopathologic analysis of the Mayo Clinic experience

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-99

  Erickson, D ^a,b   Scheithauer, B ^c   Atkinson, J ^a   Horvath, E ^d   Kovacs, K ^d   Lloyd, R V ^c   Young Jr, W F ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Departments of Endocrinology and Metabolism   (United States)

^c Laboratory Medicine and Pathology   (United States)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH DISORDER; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MALE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66949175516     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03514.x     Document Type: Article

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