Recurrent ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone producing thymic carcinoid detected with octreotide imaging

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-110

  Silva, Frieda ^a,b   Vàzquez Sellés, José ^a   Aguilö, Francisco ^a   Vázquez, Gilberto ^a   Flores, Charlie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b NONE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Octreotide Imaging; Thymic Carcinoid

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROID; INDIUM 111; KETOCONAZOLE; OCTREOTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; THYMOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOID TUMOR; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HORMONES, ECTOPIC; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MEDIASTINUM; OCTREOTIDE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECEPTORS, SOMATOSTATIN; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0345491438     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199902000-00007     Document Type: Article

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