Cavernous sinus sampling in selected cases of Cushing's disease

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 329-335

  Flitsch, Jörg ^a   Ludecke D K ^a   Knappe, U J ^a   Grzyska, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cavernous sinus sampling; Cushing's disease; Cushing's syndrome; Inferior petrosal sinus sampling; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN TEST; CUSHING DISEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CHILD; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036803011     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-34989     Document Type: Article

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