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What's an 'atypical pituitary adenoma'?
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Dr. Brian M.
Posted
Mon 01 Dec 2008 10:13am
We recently had a case at our institution of an atypical pituitary adenoma, confirmed by BerndScheithauer at the Mayo Clinic. What is implied by the designation of a pituitary adenoma as being “atypical”? Burger, Scheithauer, and Vogel -- in their textbook Surgical Pathology of the Nervous System and Its Coverings by (4 th Edition, 2002), page 469
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Best Post of December '08: What's an 'atypical pituitary adenoma'?
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Dr. Brian M.
Posted
Tue 10 Mar 2009 3:12pm
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We recently had a case at our institution of an atypical pituitary adenoma, confirmed by BerndScheithauer at the Mayo Clinic. What is implied by the designation of a pituitary adenoma as being “atypical”? Burger, Scheithauer, and Vogel -- in their textbook Surgical Pathology of the Nervous System and Its Coverings by (4 th Edition, 2002), page 469 – have
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Aspirin and adenomas.
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lcampbe79
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Wed 11 Feb 2009 3:25pm
attacks. I don't see how an aspirin can stop adenomas from forming considering the reason why they are showing up is because the APC gene is screwed up. Remembering what I heard, went through and just all the other information, I'm not sold at all that an aspirin will stop adenomas from forming. I hope that when people read about this they don't think
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How does the dexamethasone suppression test work?
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pathologystudent
Posted
Mon 14 Mar 2011 1:11am
and not functioning up to par? Also I am assuming that Dexamethasone produces a metabolite different from those produced from endogenous cortisol in urine, right? (otherwise the test wouldn’t be interpretable)
A. Great questions. Regarding the high vs. low dose dexamethasone and pituitary adenomas: the cells in the adenoma are neoplastic. Benign, but still neoplastic
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Note To Self: MEN2a + Long Move ...
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Jo C. Burzycki
Posted
Wed 01 Oct 2008 9:53pm
if they even tested it) in my forearm. Just let me say- an adenoma is a benign TUMOR okay? So they took out two bad parathyroid, left one good one in, and the proceeded to chop up.... I am going to have the doctors here take it out of my arm hopefully VERY soon then what will happen is one of two things. One- it will just test as an adenoma, it will be out
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Colonoscopies vs. Stool DNA Tests for Colon Cancer Screening
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Lisa E. L.
Posted
Thu 19 Nov 2009 10:02pm
. The study, of 12 highly experienced board-certified gastroenterologists in private practice, found some were 10 times better than others at finding adenomas, the polyps that can turn into cancer. One factor distinguishing the physicians who found many adenomas from those who found few was the amount of time spent examining the colon….
Yet, Dr. Barclay added
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TESTING TESTING TESTING…
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Jamie C.
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Sat 13 Mar 2010 12:00am
See... this is why everyone should have a test server... so they don't have to test in live
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Tests, Tests, and More Tests
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Drew's Mommy
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Tue 09 Jun 2009 12:00am
We started the week with a load of tests for Drew. These are tests that Dr. Bradstreet ordered. We collected two urine samples, one stool, and we'll be going on Thur do to another blood draw. He had to come off his vitamins and minerals for these tests; and oddly, he also had to come off of pears (along with a few other fruits). We are becomming old
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