Letter to the EditorInternational Surgery Journal

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Acromegaly with negative immunostaining for growth hormone on the contrary to silent somatotroph tumor

Int Surg J. 2017;4(4):1506-1507.DOI10.18203/2349-2902.isj20171174

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Abstract

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.

Affiliations

  1. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ege, University, İzmir, Turkey
  2. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ege, University, İzmir, Turkey
  3. Department of Pathology, Ege, University, İzmir, Turkey

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