Cushing's syndrome attributable to ectopic secretion of corticotropin in a patient with two neuroendocrine tumors

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 656-659

  Salvatori, Roberto ^a   Fintini, Danilo ^a   Westra, William H ^a   Cho, Steve Y ^a   Schulick, Richard D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HORMONE; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HORMONES, ECTOPIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 33847759540     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.12.6.656     Document Type: Article

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