Age-dependent decline in cortisol levels and clinical manifestations in patients with ACTH-independent Cushing's syndrome

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 311-316

  Katayama, M ^a   Nomura, K ^a   Ujihara, M ^a   Obara, T ^a   Demura, H ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; EDEMA; FEMALE; GENDER; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATININE; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031752226     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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