면역세포화학 염색법과 전자 현미경검사를 통한 뇌하수체 선종의 특징 = Immunocytochemistry and Electronmicroscopy of Pituitary Adenoma

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Background: The development of immunocytochemistry and the application of electron microscopy improved the knowledge of the pathology and classification of the pitutiary adenomas. We investigated the characteristics of the pituitary adenomas examined by the immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy. Methods: 44 patients with the pituitary adenomas were investigated, using immunocytochemical techniques in paraffin-embedded tissue, and electron microscopy in fresh tissue. Results: The mean age was 38±13 years, and the ratio of male to female was 1: 2.4 and 18 were prolactinomas, 8 acromegalies, 3 acromegalies with hyperprolactinemia, 3 Cushing`s diaseases, 3 FSH secreting adenomas, 1 TSH secreting adenomas, and 6 nonfunctioning adenomas among 44 patients. The agreement between serum prolactin and prolactin immunocytochemistry was 77.3% if the serum prolaetin level to predict lactotrope adenoma was above 50ng/ml; however, the agreement was 93,2% if the serum prolatin level above 100ng/ml. The serum levels of prolactin and growth hormone in sparsely granulated lactotrope and somatotrope adenomas were 1149.6, 109.5ng/ml, respectively, which were higher than those (129.6, 35.9ng/ml) of densely granulated ones. Immunocytochemical and electron microscopic analysis revealed that thirteen were lactotrope adenomas (12 sparsely granulated, and 1 densely granulated), 9 somatotrope adenomas (6 sparsely granulated and 3 densely granulated), 6 gonadotrope, 4 corticotrope (3 symtomatic and 1 silent), 1 mixed somatotrope and lactotrope, 1 mammosomatotrope, 1 thyrotrope, and 9 null cell (6 nononcocytic, and 3 oncocytic) adenomas. Conclusion: The immunocytochemistry, permitting the visualization of intracellular hormones in the tissue of the pituitary adenoma, made exact histologic diagnosis. So, we have known whether the cause of hyperprolactinemia was lactotrope adenoma or functional hyperprolactinemia due to PIF inhibiton. And it was also possible to diagnose silent corticotrope adenoma and gonadotrope adenoma which had no apparent clinical manifestation. Electron microscopic examination of the pituitary adenoma diagnosed by immunocytchemistry showed ultrastructrural characteristics of the adenoma cells containing each hormones, Accordingly, we could subclassify the pituitary adenoma. However, the identification of the adenomas with somewhat similar ultrastrutural features such as null cell, gonadotrope, and thyrotrope adenoma, may be facilitated by immunocytochemistry. Accordingly, both immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy are necessary for the identification and characterization of the pituitary adenomas.