Ectopic Cushing' syndrome cause by a neuroendocrine carcinoma of the mesentery

BMC Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fasshauer, Mathias ^a   Lincke, Thomas ^a   Witzigmann, Helmut ^a   Kluge, Regine ^a   Tannapfel, Andrea ^b   Moche, Michael ^a   Buchfelder, Michael ^c   Petersenn, Stephan ^d   Kratzsch, Juergen ^a   Paschke, Ralf ^a   Koch, Christian A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; OCTREOTIDE; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111;

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISOTOPE LABELING; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MESENTERY TUMOR; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REMISSION; SUBTOTAL THYROIDECTOMY; THYROID TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRASOUND;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MESENTERY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 33646745111     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-108     Document Type: Article

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