Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma with metastasis to the pituitary gland: a case report
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Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma with metastasis to the pituitary gland: a case report.
An unusual case of metastatic bronchioloalveolar carcinoma of the lung presented as a pituitary tumour in a young adult Chinese female, who subsequently died after having undergone trans-sphenoidal resection. Metastatic cancers of the pituitary are uncommon even in necropsy series and rarely give rise to clinical symptoms. This case draws attention to the fact that, although uncommon, pituitary...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.51.12.931