ACTH-producing carcinoma of the pituitary with haematogenic metastases

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 176-180

  Garrão, António F ^a   Sobrinho, L Gonçalves ^a   Oliveira, Pedro ^a   Bugalho, Maria J ^a   Boavida, José M ^a   Raposo, João F ^a   Loureiro, Margarida ^a   Limbert, Edward ^a   Costa, Ilda ^a   Antunes, João Lobo ^b  

^a Portuguese Cancer Institute   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030748677     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1370176     Document Type: Article

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