Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Somatotropic adenomas are clinically expressed either by acromegaly or by gigantism according to age of onset. Several histological types are involved. Immunohistochemistry provides conclusive evidence that significant diversity exists between growth hormone secreting (GH) tumors in excess. We report three observations of a particular histological type: mammosomatotropic adenoma.Observation 1: Mrs. M.H., aged 56, hypertensive for 10 years, ...