HISTOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF ALDOSTERONE-SECRETING CELLS ADENOMA OF ADRENAL-CORTEX

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 72  (1) , 57-65
Abstract
Adrenal cortex adenomas [2 cases] were examined. Both cases presented clinical symptoms of autonomic hyperaldosteronism. Histologically, one adenoma had a benign structure, the other a malignant one. An ultrastructural and cytochemical assay of the benign form suggests that it is composed of so-called hybrid cells. Histochemically, the cells of both adenomas were characterized by a 3-.beta. hydroxysteroid and succinic dehydrogenase reaction, the presenct of MAO [monoamine oxidase] and nonspecific esterases and in some single cells 17-.beta. hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.

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