Neuroendocrine tumor of unknown origin metastasizing to a growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 201.e9-201.e12

  Nassiri, Farshad ^a   Cusimano, Michael ^a   Rotondo, Fabio ^a   Horvath, Eva ^a   Kovacs, Kalman ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Metastases to pituitary; Neuroendocrine tumor; Pathology

Indexed keywords

BOMBESIN; CALCITONIN; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; SEROTONIN; VIMENTIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTHRALGIA; BONE BIOPSY; BONE LESION; BONE PAIN; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COLON CANCER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG PAIN; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; REVIEW; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SNORING; SPINAL CORD LESION; TRANSSPHENOIDAL HYPOPHYSECTOMY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84858037405     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2011.02.017     Document Type: Review

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