By Andrea Lania MD, PHD (auth.), Brooke Swearingen MD, Beverly M. K. Biller MD (eds.)
This textual content offers a close replace on present diagnostic and healing recommendations worthy within the administration of a huge spectrum of pituitary problems. The contents mirror the multidisciplinary method wanted for sufferers with issues of the pituitary gland, with contributions from either endocrinologists and neurosurgeons, in addition to distinctiveness contributions from radiologists, ophthalmologists, pathologists, radiation oncologists, and neurologists. The e-book specializes in each one pituitary tumor subtype, and includes extra chapters relating to different lesions of the sella, together with tumor administration while pregnant and within the pediatric age group.
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Spindle cell oncocytoma of the adenohypophysis: report of two cases. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 2005;110:97–9. 27. Kloub O, Perry A, Tu PH, Lipper M, Lopes MB. Spindle cell oncocytoma of the adenohypophysis: report of two recurrent cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2005;29:247–53. 28. Roncaroli F, Scheithauer BW, Cenacchi G, et al. “Spindle cell oncocytoma” of the adenohypophysis: a tumor of folliculostellate cells? Am J Surg Pathol 2002;26:1048–55. 29. Lopes MB, Lanzino G, Cloft HJ, Winston DC, Vance ML, Laws ER, Jr.
In comparison to granular tumors in other locations. Granular cell tumors in other locations are S-100-positive and are thought to arise from Schwann cells. Sellar granular cell tumors are glial fibrillary acid protein (GFAP)positive in some cases, supporting their origin from pituicytes. In other reports the tumors have been GFAP-negative; thus the controversy about the cell of origin remains. Tumor cells are also positive for CD68, alpha-1-antitrypsin, and alpha-1-antichemotrypsin. One case of atypical granular cell tumor with marked pleomorphism and increased mitotic activity has been reported (18).
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