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Tumefactive Postmenopausal Gonadotroph Cell Hyperplasia

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The authors are grateful to the Jarislowsky and Lloyd Carr Harris Foundations for their continuous support. The authors also thank Mrs. Denise Chase of Mayo Clinic for excellent assistance and secretarial support.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Mark Jentoft & Bernd W. Scheithauer

  2. Peterborough Regional Health Center, Peterborough, ON, Canada

    Olga Moshkin

  3. St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Eva Horvath & Kalman Kovacs

  4. North Austin Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA

    Phillip C. Collins

  5. Neurosurgery, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe and Clinica Medellin, Medellin, Colombia

    Luis V. Syro

  6. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street, SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Mark Jentoft

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Jentoft, M., Scheithauer, B.W., Moshkin, O. et al. Tumefactive Postmenopausal Gonadotroph Cell Hyperplasia. Endocr Pathol 23, 108–111 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12022-012-9196-9

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