Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Follicle stimulating hormone receptors (FSHR) are physiologically expressed in gonads. FSHR are also expressed in gonadal cancers, but nothing is known on FSHR appearance in non-gonadal endocrine tumors. The present paper reports on the immunohistochemical detection of FSHR in pituitary, thyroid, adrenal and neuroendocrine tumors (NET).Materials and methods: The study included samples of 80 endocrine tumors (28 pituitary adenomas, 7 thyroid...