Endocrine Abstracts

Background: In our earlier study we found that pituitary adenomas, like other human tumours, express ectopically follicle stimulating hormone receptors FSH in intratumoral blood vessels endothelia and/or tumoral cells. The aim of the present paper is to provide the more detailed data on FSHR expression in different subtypes of pituitary adenomas and to evaluate its possible role as a prognostic and/or predictive biomarker in these tumours.Material and me...