Acromegaly caused by a growth hormone-releasing hormone-secreting carcinoid tumor: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1356-1360

  Altstadt, Thomas J ^a   Azzarelli, Biagio ^a   Bevering, Carl ^b   Edmondson, James ^a   Nelson, Paul B ^a   Kovacs, Kalman ^c   Post, Kalmon D ^c   Laws Jr , Edward R ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b North Central Neurosurgery   (United States)

^c Emerson Hall ^*

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Ectopic acromegaly; Pituitary hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; OCTREOTIDE;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEATING; SYMPTOM; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ACROMEGALY; ADULT; CARCINOID TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HORMONES, SYNTHETIC; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; NEOPLASTIC ENDOCRINE-LIKE SYNDROMES; OCTREOTIDE; PITUITARY GLAND; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SOMATOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0346774833     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200206000-00029     Document Type: Article

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