Undetectable postoperative cortisol does not always predict long-term remission in Cushing's disease: A single centre audit

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-31

  Yap, L B ^a   Turner, H E ^a   Adams, C B T ^a   Wass, J A H ^a,b  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; THYROTROPIN;

ACROMEGALY; ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREER; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MICROADENOMA; PETROUS BONE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036153783     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0300-0664.2001.01444.x     Document Type: Article

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