ArticlePituitary2019
Evaluation of expression of somatostatin receptor 1, 2, 3, 5 and dopamine D2 receptor in spindle cell oncocytomas of posterior pituitary.
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- Risk factors for tumor recurrence and progression of spindle cell oncocytoma of the pituitary gland: a systematic review and pooled analysis.Pituitary · 2021Pooled it
- Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Gallbladder: Clinicopathologic and Immunohistochemical Analysis of 31 Cases.The American journal of surgical pathology · 2026Article
- Posterior pituitary tumors and other rare entities involving the pituitary gland.Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Somatostatin receptors in normal and acromegalic somatotroph cells: the U-turn of the clinician to immunohistochemistry report - a review.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologieReview
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Abstract
purposeSpindle cell oncocytomas (SCOs) are very rare tumors of the posterior pituitary with potential for locally aggressive behaviour. Their treatment includes surgery and possibly radiotherapy, however other options are lacking. Somatostatin receptors (SSTs) are a possible therapeutic target for somatostatin analogues and their expression has been demonstrated recently in closely related pituicytomas, but there are no data about their presence in SCOs.
methodsWe collected five cases of SCO from four patients including one recurrent case. Immunohistochemical detection of TTF1, GFAP, CD68, SST
resultsMean patient age was 61.8 years (range 47-71 years) with male to female ratio 1:1. In one patient, samples from the original tumor and its recurrence 16 years later were assessed. TTF1 was positive in all five cases, no expression of GFAP and CD68 was seen. Immunohistochemical expression of SST
conclusionsWe demonstrated presence of different SST subtypes and D2DR in spindle cell oncocytomas. The most commonly expressed subtype was SST
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