Reduction of a pancreatic tumor after total removal of an ACTH secreting pituitary tumor: Differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 203-208

  Hashiba, Tetsuo ^a   Saitoh, Youichi ^a   Asanuma, Nobuyuki ^a   Kouhara, Haruhiko ^a   Maruo, Tomoyuki ^a   Fujinaka, Toshiyuki ^a   Kasayama, Soji ^a   Yoshimine, Toshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cushing's disease; Ectopic ACTH syndrome; Pancreatic neoplasm; Petrosal sinus sampling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645863152     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.53.203     Document Type: Article

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