The desmopressin and combined CRH-desmopressin tests in the differential diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome: Constraints imposed by the expression of V2 vasopressin receptors in tumors with ectopic ACTH secretion

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1646-1653

  Tsagarakis, S ^b,c   Tsigos, C ^a,c   Vasiliou, V ^b,c   Tsiotra, P ^a   Kaskarelis, J ^b,c   Sotiropoulou, C ^a,b,c   Raptis, S A ^a,b,c   Thalassinos, N ^a,b,c  

^a Evangelismos Hospital   (Greece)

^b Hellenic National Diabetes Center   (Greece)

^c EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DESMOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN V2 RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V3 RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RNA, MESSENGER;

BRONCHUS;

EID: 0036280915     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.87.4.1646     Document Type: Article

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