Testicular adrenal rest tumours in congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-220

  Claahsen van der Grinten, H L ^a   Otten, B J ^a   Stikkelbroeck, M M L ^a   Sweep, F C G J ^a   Hermus, A R M M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

congenital adrenal hyperplasia; infertility; testicular adrenal rest tumours

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MINERALOCORTICOID;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MECHANISM; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; TESTICULAR ADRENAL REST TUMOR; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENAL REST TUMOR; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 66149186879     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2008.09.007     Document Type: Review

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