Transformation of a pituitary macroadenoma into to a corticotropin- secreting carcinoma over 16 years

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 463-471

  Brown, Rebecca L ^a   Wollman, Robert ^a   Weiss, Roy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; SECRETION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; BIOPSY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIOSURGERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35148874210     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.13.5.463     Document Type: Article

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