Octreotide-sensitive ectopic ACTH production by islet cell carcinoma with multiple liver metastases

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-143

  Doi, Masaru ^a   Imai, Taihei ^a   Shichiri, Masayoshi ^a   Tateno, Tohru ^a   Fukai, Nozomi ^a   Ozawa, Naoko ^a   Sato, Ryuji ^a   Teramoto, Kenichi ^a   Hirata, Yukio ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ectopic ACTH syndrome; Islet cell carcinoma; Living related liver transplantation; Octreotide; Octreotide scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; METYRAPONE; OCTREOTIDE; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; STREPTOZOCIN;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER GROWTH; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DRUG EFFICACY; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOKALEMIA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PANCREAS ISLET CELL CARCINOMA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; CARCINOMA, ISLET CELL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038671980     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.50.135     Document Type: Article

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