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Crooke's cells
Also known as:
Crooke's granules
Associated persons:
Arthur Carleton Crooke
Description:
Hyalinated, basophilic cells in the pituitary body found in Cushing’s syndrome, but also in exogenic administration of cortisol. They are pathogonomic for the so-called basophilic adenoma of the pituitary. Possibly degenerative secondary effects.
See also Cushing’s syndrome I, under Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon, 1869-1939.
Bibliography:
- A. C. Crooke:
A change in the basophile cells of the pituitary gland common to conditions which exhibit the syndrome attributed to basophile adenoma.
Journal of Pathology, Chichester, 1935, 41: 339-349.
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