Bronchial carcinoid tumors metastatic to the sella turcica and review of the literature

Pituitary

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-165

  Moshkin, Olga ^a,b   Rotondo, Fabio ^b   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^c   Soares, Mark ^d   Coire, Claire ^d   Smyth, Harley S ^d   Goth, Miklos ^e   Horvath, Eva ^b   Kovacs, Kalman ^b  

^a Peterborough Regional Health Centre   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d Trillium Health Centre Missassauga   (Canada)

^e Military Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bronchial carcinoid tumor; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Pathology; Pituitary metastasis

Indexed keywords

BOMBESIN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN; SEROTONIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ATELECTASIS; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG LOBECTOMY; NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA TUMOR; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SELLA TURCICA;

EID: 84861456840     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: 15737403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-012-0388-6     Document Type: Review

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