Repeated remissions of cushing's disease due to recurrent infarctions of an ACTH-Producing pituitary macroadenoma

Pituitary

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 81-87

  Alarifi, Abdullah ^a   Alzahrani, Ali S ^a,b   Salam, Suzan Abdel ^a   Ahmed, Mohammed ^a   Kanaan, Imaduddin ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; Apoplexy; Cushing's disease

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ACNE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AMENORRHEA; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CUSHING DISEASE; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPITUITARISM; MOON FACE; MYOPATHY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGOMENORRHEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SAUDI ARABIA; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 33644537123     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-005-2961-8     Document Type: Article

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