Unusual causes of Cushing's syndrome

Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia e Metabologia

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1245-1252

  Vassiliadi, Dimitra ^a   Tsagarakis, Stylianos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Athens' Polyclinic ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Cushing's syndrome; Ectopic adenomas; Gangliocytomas; Glucocorticoid hypersensitivity; Megestrol

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649137712     PISSN: 00042730     EISSN: 16779487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27302007000800010     Document Type: Review

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