No overrepresentation of congenital adrenal hyperplasia in patients with adrenocortical tumours

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 343-346

  Kjellman, Magnus ^a   Holst, Mikael ^a   Bäckdahl, Martin ^a   Larsson, Catharina ^a   Farnebo, Lars Ove ^a   Wedell, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALDOSTERONE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN;

EID: 0032946872     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00655.x     Document Type: Article

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