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Giant silent corticotrope pituitary adenoma in a patient with complicated clinical course
Affiliations- Institute of Pathology and Neuropathology, Neuromed Campus, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria
- Nuclear Medicine Research Department, IASON, Graz, Austria
- Nuclear Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Department of Neurosurgery, Neuromed Campus, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria
- Institute of Neuroradiology, Neuromed Campus, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria
- Department of Neurology, Neuromed Campus, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria
- Department of Gerontology, Neuromed Campus, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria
- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Neuromed Campus, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria
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Keywords
acromegaly; Cushing´s disease; somatostatin receptor subtype; immunohistochemistry; somatostatin analogues
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Giant silent corticotrope pituitary adenoma in a patient with complicated clinical course
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Clinical vignette
Pages
282-283
Published online
2021-03-22
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DOI
10.5603/EP.a2021.0027
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Endokrynol Pol 2021;72(3):282-283.
Keywords
acromegaly
Cushing´s disease
somatostatin receptor subtype
immunohistochemistry
somatostatin analogues
Authors
Ognian Kalev
Marina Hodolic
Berndt Tomancok
Michael Sonnberger
Markus Hutterer
Daniela Ehrlich
Robert Pichler
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