Editorial: Aggressive pituitary tumors in men1: Do they refute the two-hit model of tumorigenesis?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 453-456

  Marx, Stephen J ^a,c   Nieman, Lynnette K ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CARCINOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; ONSET AGE; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINOBLASTOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 1; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 85047683964     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.87.2.8289     Document Type: Editorial

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