Advances in the management of paediatric Cushing's disease

Hormone Research

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 327-333

  Savage, Martin O ^a   Chan, Li F ^a   Afshar, Farhad ^a   Plowman, P Nicholas ^a   Grossman, Ashley B ^a   Storr, Helen L ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cushing's disease; Paediatrics; Pituitary radiotherapy; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOMIDATE; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; METYRAPONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENALECTOMY; ALBRIGHT SYNDROME; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUSHING DISEASE; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SHORT STATURE; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY GLAND; PUBERTY;

EID: 44949096488     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000117388     Document Type: Short Survey

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