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Clinically silent hypersecretion of growth hormone in patients with pituitary tumors

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Abstract

Hypersecretion of growth hormone (GH) was found in three women aged 25 to 35 years old, with somatotroph adenomas without clinical stigmata of acromegaly. The patients had previously been diagnosed as having nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas, with extrasellar extension. Concentrations of GH were elevated preoperatively in all subjects and could not be suppressed during oral glucose tolerance testing. Somatomedin-C concentrations were elevated in two patients. Immunocytochemical studies of surgically obtained tumor tissue demonstrated sparse positive staining for GH in all subjects. Gel-chromatographic analysis of serum and tumor tissue samples demonstrated that the immunoactive GH was authentic GH. On pathological examination, the tumor was cellular in all cases, consisting of partly acidophilic and partly chromophobic cells. Electron microscopic analysis of one tumor showed a cell composition not previously described. These studies further characterize GH hypersecretion in a subset of patients with clinically nonfunctioning pituitary macroadenomas.

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