Preclinical Cushing's syndrome resulting from black adrenal adenoma a case report

Hormone Research

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 60-66

  Tokunaga, Hiroshi ^a   Miyamura, Nobuhiro ^a   Sasaki, Kazunari ^a   Yoshizato, Kazuaki ^a   Itasaka, Mina ^a   Nakamaru, Kazuhiko ^a   Suefuji, Mihoshi ^a   Kawashima, Junji ^a   Matsumoto, Kazuya ^a   Sasano, Hironobu ^b   Araki, Eiichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal incidentaloma; Adrenal scintigraphy; Black adrenal adenoma; Immunohistochemistry; Preclinical Cushing's syndrome; Steroid content of adrenal tumor

Indexed keywords

6BETA IODOMETHYL 19 NORCHOLEST 5(10) EN 3BETA OL; DEXAMETHASONE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IODINE 131;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLACK ADRENAL ADENOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; CYTOPLASM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TUMOR VOLUME;

17-HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROIDS; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALDOSTERONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4644333840     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079120     Document Type: Article

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