An ordinarily benign neoplasm of epithelial tissue in which the tumor cells form glands or glandlike structures in the stroma; usually well circumscribed, tending to compress rather than infiltrate or invade adjacent tissue.
Origin
[adeno- + G. -oma, tumor]
acidophil adenoma
ACTH-producing adenoma
adnexal adenoma
adrenocortical adenoma
apocrine adenoma
basal cell adenoma
basophil adenoma
bronchial adenoma
canalicular adenoma
chromophil adenoma
chromophobe adenoma
colloid adenoma
embryonal adenoma
eosinophil adenoma
fibroid adenoma
follicular adenoma
Fuchs‘ adenoma
gonadotropin-producing adenoma
growth hormone-producing adenoma
hepatic adenoma
hepatocellular adenoma
Hürthle cell adenoma
islet cell adenoma
lactating adenoma
Leydig cell adenoma
macrofollicular adenoma
microfollicular adenoma
monomorphic adenoma
nephrogenic adenoma
adenoma of nipple
null-cell adenoma
ovarian tubular adenoma
oxyphil adenoma
papillary cystic adenoma
papillary adenoma of large intestine
Pick’s tubular adenoma
pituitary adenoma
pleomorphic adenoma
polypoid adenoma
prolactin-producing adenoma
prostatic adenoma
renal cortical adenoma
sebaceous adenoma
adenoma sebaceum
testicular tubular adenoma
thyrotropin-producing adenoma
tubular adenoma
undifferentiated cell adenoma
villous adenoma