Different patterns of steroid secretion in patients with adrenal incidentaloma

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 740-744

  Terzolo, Massimo ^a,c   Osella, Giangiacomo ^a   Alì, Anna ^a   Borretta, Giorgio ^b   Magro, Gian Paolo ^b   Termine, Angela ^a   Paccotti, Piero ^a   Angeli, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SAN LUIGI GONZAGA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; ENZYME DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID RELEASE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030063403     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.2.740     Document Type: Article

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