Eugonadal male patients with adrenal incidentalomas and subclinical hypercortisolism have increased rate of vertebral fractures

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 208-213

  Chiodini, Iacopo ^a,b   Viti, Raffaella ^d   Coletti, Francesca ^c   Guglielmi, Giuseppe ^d   Battista, Claudia ^d   Ermetici, Federica ^b   Morelli, Valentina ^b,c   Salcuni, Antonio ^b   Carnevale, Vincenzo ^d   Urbano, Filomena ^d   Muscarella, Silvana ^d   Ambrosi, Bruno ^b   Arosio, Maura ^b,c   Beck Peccoz, Paolo ^b   Scillitani, Alfredo ^d  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Unit of Endocrinology 'San Giuseppe Milanocuore' Hospital   (Italy)

^d CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMUR NECK; GONAD FUNCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; ITALY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; TESTIS;

EID: 58549115899     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2008.03310.x     Document Type: Article

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