Cushing's Syndrome Due to Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Diagnosis by Proopiomelanocortin Messenger Ribonucleic Acid in Situ Hybridization

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4565-4568

  Smallridge, R C ^a   Bourne, K ^b   Pearson, B W ^a   Van Heerden, J A ^c   Carpenter, P C ^c   Young, W F ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Orlando Diabet Endocr Specialists   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CALCIUM ION; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0242320447     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-021796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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