Diagnosis by serendipity: Cushing syndrome attributable to cortisol-producing adrenal adenoma as the initial manifestation of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 due to a rare splicing site MEN1 gene mutation

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 595-602

  Alzahrani, Ali S ^a   Al Khaldi, Nojoud ^a   Shi, Yufei ^a   Al Rijjal, Roua A ^a   Zou, Minjing ^a   Baitei, Essa Y ^a   Amin, Tarek ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CABERGOLINE; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM CARBONATE; GENOMIC DNA; HYDROCORTISONE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; MEN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ONCOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENALECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; MEN 1 GENE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PROLACTINOMA; SPLICING DEFECT; THYMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; SECRETION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 1; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 58149467323     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.14.5.595     Document Type: Article

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