Full-Blown Cushing's Disease after an Episode of Pituitary Apoplexy

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 501-506

  Sasaki, Masami ^a   Funayama, Hiroshi ^a   Asano, Takeharu ^a   Kasono, Keizo ^a   Namai, Kazuyuki ^a   Tamemoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Ueno, Shinji ^a   Ota, Masahiro ^a   Kawakami, Masanobu ^a   Shinoda, Sohji ^a   Ishikawa, San E ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACTH; Pituitary adenoma; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; ECTOPIC HORMONE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS APOPLEXY; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OBESITY; PITUITARY APOPLEXY; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 10744231646     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.50.501     Document Type: Article

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