Work-up and management of paediatric Cushing's syndrome

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 346-351

  Savage, Martin O ^a   Chan, Li F ^a   Grossman, Ashley B ^a   Storr, Helen L ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

17 HYDROXYCORTICOSTEROID; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE 1; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; STEROID; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENALECTOMY; ALBRIGHT SYNDROME; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; BILATERAL INFERIOR PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING; BODY COMPOSITION; CANCER SURGERY; CARNEY COMPLEX; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FAMILIAL CANCER; GENE MUTATION; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS; INFERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; LONG TERM CARE; MACRONODULAR ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; MICROADENOMA; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIMARY ADRENOCORTICAL HYPERPLASIA; PRIMARY NODULAR ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SHORT STATURE; SKULL SURGERY; SPHENOID SINUS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBERTY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUSHING SYNDROME; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA, POLYOSTOTIC; HUMANS; PETROSAL SINUS SAMPLING; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY GLAND; PUBERTY;

EID: 55249096256     PISSN: 1752296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MED.0b013e328305082f     Document Type: Review

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