Pre-Clinical Cushing’s Syndrome with Body Weight Loss and Normal Circadian Rhythm of Blood Pressure

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 528-533

  Iwami, Taku ^a   Nakamura, Tetsuya ^a   Niwamae, Nogiku ^a   Yamagishi, Takahiro ^a   Utsugi, Toshihiro ^a   Nagai, Ryozo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal incidentaloma; Cortisol; Dexamethasone

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; RENIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; AGED; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CASE REPORT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0031903312     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.528     Document Type: Article

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