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The pathophysiology of pituitary adenomas.
Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism - 1 Oct 2009
Dworakowska Dorota, Grossman Ashley B
Abstract excerpt
The pathogenesis of tumour formation in the anterior pituitary has been intensively studied, but the causative mechanisms involved in pituitary cell transformation and tumourigenesis remain elusive. Most pituitary tumours are sporadic, but some arise as a component of genetic syndromes such as the McCune-Albright syndrome, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1, Carney complex and, the most recently described, a...
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