| HPA | Health Care Practice Act; Health Policy Agenda for the American People; health promotion advocates; ... |
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| HPAA | hydroperoxyarachidonic acid; hydroxyphenylacetic acid; hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis |
| HPAC | high-performance anion-exchange chromatography; hypothalamo-pituitary-adreno-cortical |
| hPFSH, HPFSH | human pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone |
| hPG, HPG | human pituitary gonadotropin |
| bronchial adenoma | <radiology> Most common benign lung tumour (but only 1/50 as common as carcinoma), malignant potential, 75% resemble carcinoid tumour or cylindroma, possibly benign form of oaT-cell tumour, haemoptysis, bronchial obstruction most likely to be air-trapping (12 Dec 1998) |
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| canalicular adenoma | <tumour> A variant of monomorphic adenoma composed of double rows of epithelial cells in long cords. (05 Mar 2000) |
| carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma | <tumour> Carcinoma arising in a benign mixed tumour of a salivary gland, characterised by rapid enlargement and pain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| macrofollicular adenoma | <tumour> A follicular adenoma of the thyroid, composed of large follicles containing colloid. Synonym: macrofollicular adenoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| papillary adenoma of large intestine | <tumour> Appears as a solitary sessile, often large, tumour of colonic mucosa composed of mucinous epithelium covering delicate vascular projections; malignant change occurs frequently; hypersecretion occurs rarely. Also known as adenoma. Synonym: papillary adenoma of large intestine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| papillary cystic adenoma | <tumour> An adenoma in which the lumens of the acini are frequently distended by fluid, and the neoplastic epithelial elements tend to form irregular, fingerlike projections. (05 Mar 2000) |
| villous adenoma | <tumour> Appears as a solitary sessile, often large, tumour of colonic mucosa composed of mucinous epithelium covering delicate vascular projections; malignant change occurs frequently; hypersecretion occurs rarely. Also known as adenoma. Synonym: papillary adenoma of large intestine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| renal cortical adenoma | <tumour> One of the usually small adenoma's sometimes found in the renal cortex and derived from renal tubular tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gonadotrophin-producing adenoma | <tumour> A rare type of pituitary adenoma that produces FSH and LH; its cells can be identified only by immunochemical techniques. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gonadotropin-producing adenoma | <tumour> A rare type of pituitary adenoma that produces FSH and LH; its cells can be identified only by immunochemical techniques. (05 Mar 2000) |
| growth hormone-producing adenoma | <tumour> An adenoma that produces the clinical picture of gigantism or acromegaly, although a third of the cells have no granules or are a mixture of acidophils and chromophobes; some tumours may secrete both growth hormone and prolactin; often an acidophil or eosinophil adenoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromophil adenoma | <tumour> Any adenoma composed of cells that stain readily. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromophobe adenoma | <tumour> A tumour of the adenohypophysis whose cells do not stain with either acid or basic dyes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromophobic adenoma | <tumour> A tumour of the adenohypophysis whose cells do not stain with either acid or basic dyes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| microcystic adenoma of pancreas | <radiology> Benign tumour of pancreas, M:F = 1:4, peak age 69 years of age, tiny cysts filled with GLYCOGEN, not mucin, large (ca. 10 cm), innumerable small cysts (1mm - 20mm), central stellate scar with or without calcification, hypervascular, head = body = tail, ** associated with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, Cf: macrocystic adenoma, alias mucinous cystic neoplasm (12 Dec 1998) |