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Prolactinoma with extensive amyloid deposits: a case report

Lincoln Jiménez1, Marie L Rivera, Susana Ferrá

  • 1PGY-3, Department of Surgery-Section of Neurosurgery University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan.

Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal
|December 17, 2008
PubMed
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This study details a rare case of extensive amyloid deposition within a prolactinoma, a common pituitary tumor. This finding is significant as amyloid is an uncommon occurrence in pituitary neoplasms.

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