Late complications in remission from cushing disease: Recurrence of tumor with reinfarction or transformation into a silent adenoma

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2377-2380

  Dickstein, Gabriel ^a   Arad, Eldad ^a   Shechner, Carmela ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CUSHING DISEASE; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

EID: 0030663633     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.20.2377     Document Type: Article

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