ACTH-producing carcinoma of the pituitary with refractory Cushing's Disease and hepatic metastases: A case report and review of the literature

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pinchot, Scott N ^a   Sippel, Rebecca ^a   Chen, Herbert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CORTICOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; KETOCONAZOLE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREASTATIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ACNE; ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CAPILLARY RESISTANCE; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS SINUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; CUSHING DISEASE; CUSHING SYNDROME; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PARATHYROID SCINTISCANNING; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PTOSIS; RADIOSURGERY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TACHYCARDIA; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; ARTICLE; BLOOD; GENETICS; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; FEMALE; GENES, P53; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION;

EID: 65549130017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-7-39     Document Type: Review

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