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Some recent findings related to pituitary adenoma pathology achieved by molecular biological methods are briefly reviewed. It is increasingly obvious that the application of the molecular pathology approach can provide a deeper insight into the causation, histogenesis, cellular derivation and differentiation as well as progression of pituitary adenomas and can help to understand better structure-function correlations.
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Kovacs, K. (1996). Molecular Biological Research in Pituitary Adenomas from the Pathologists’ View. In: Fahlbusch, R., Bock, W.J., Brock, M., Buchfelder, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Modern Neurosurgery of Meningiomas and Pituitary Adenomas. Acta Neurochirurgica, vol 65. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9450-8_2
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