Adrenal insufficiency caused by bilateral adrenal metastases - A rare treatable cause for recurrent nausea and vomiting in metastatic breast cancer

Onkologie

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 203-205

  Bausewein, Claudia ^a   Kühnbach, Robert ^a   Haberland, Birgit ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer, metastatic; Insufficiency, adrenal; Metastases, adrenal; Nausea; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEHYDRATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; PLEURA EFFUSION; REHYDRATION; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; NAUSEA; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 33646498295     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092265     Document Type: Article

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