Routine Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling in the Differential Diagnosis of Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)-Dependent Cushing's Syndrome: Early Recognition of the Occult Ectopic ACTH Syndrome

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 408-413

  Findling, James W ^a   Kehoe, Michael E ^a   Shaker, Joseph L ^a   Raff, Hershel ^a  

^a ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECTOPIC HORMONE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENAL GLAND HYPERFUNCTION; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE;

IPS; OVIS;

EID: 0026072457     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem-73-2-408     Document Type: Article

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