Remission of acromegaly caused by pituitary carcinoma after surgical excision of growth hormone-secreting metastasis detected by 111-indium pentetreotide scan

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1628-1633

  Greenman, Yona ^a   Woolf, Paul ^b   Coniglio, John ^b   O'Mara, R ^b   Pei, Lin ^a   Said, Jonathan W ^a   Melmed, Shlomo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; PROTIRELIN; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; SOMATOSTATIN; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS;

EID: 0029936404     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.4.1628     Document Type: Article

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