Article
Relationship between cytokeratin staining patterns and clinico-pathological features in somatotropinomae
6 Aug 2010
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Somatotropinomae are classified as densely and sparsely granulated adenomae, which typically exhibit a perinuclear pattern (PP) and a dot pattern (DP) in cytokeratin (CK) immunostaining respectively. Some exhibit a mixed pattern (MP). We studied the relationship between these somatotropinoma subtypes and their clinico-pathological features. METHODS: The study population consisted of 141 Japanese...
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