Acromegaly with negative immunostaining for growth hormone on the contrary to silent somatotroph tumor
Articles > Article · 2017
Authors: Hatice ÖZIŞIK, Banu Pınar ŞARER YÜREKLİ, Nilufer Ozdemir Kutbay, Ilker Altun, Yeşim ERTAN, Lütfiye Füsun SAYGILI
International Surgery Journal, International, 2017, vol 4, pp 1506-1506
DOI: 10.18203/2349-2902.isj20171174
Summary
Silent somatotropinomas are not rare. On the contrary to that, the absence of GH immunostaining in acromegaly has not been well defined. So, we would like to to draw the clinician’s attention to such an entity through a case of acromegaly with negative GH staining.