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Pit-1 Positive α-Subunit Positive Nonfunctioning Human Pituitary Adenomas: A Dediferentiated GH Cell Lineage?

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  1. Department of Pathology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

    R.Y. Osamura, Y. Itoh, H. Kajiwara & R. Kurotani

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

    S. Tahara, K. Komatsubara, N. Sanno & A. Teramoto

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Osamura, R., Tahara, S., Komatsubara, K. et al. Pit-1 Positive α-Subunit Positive Nonfunctioning Human Pituitary Adenomas: A Dediferentiated GH Cell Lineage?. Pituitary 1, 269–271 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009954409469

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