Unilateral adrenal tumor, erectile dysfunction and infertility in a patient with 21-hydroxylase deficiency: Effects of glucocorticoid treatment and surgery

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-43

  Scaroni, Carla ^a   Favia, G ^a   Lumachi, F ^a   Opocher, G ^a   Bonanni, G ^a   Mantero, F ^a   Armanini, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

21 Hydroxylase deficiency syndrome; Adrenal mass; Impotence; Infertility

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MINERALOCORTICOID; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENZYME DEFECT; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FERTILITY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; STEROID THERAPY; TESTIS CELL; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; SPERMATIC CORD; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037296204     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-37499     Document Type: Article

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