Subclinical hypercortisolism in incidentally detected adrenal adenoma;Subklinischer Hypercortisolismus bei zufällig entdeckten Nebennierentumoren

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 121, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 503-508

  Seppel, T ^a,b   Schlaghecke, R ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX HYPERFUNCTION; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARCINOMA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOLIPOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL HYPERFUNCTION; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOLIPOMA; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029893061     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1043033     Document Type: Article

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