Cushing's disease associated with both pituitary microadenoma and corticotroph hyperplasia

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 289-293

  Haap, M ^a   Gallwitz, B ^a   Meyermann, R ^a   Mittelbronn, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ACTH; Cushing's disease; Hypercortisolism; Microadenoma; Nodular corticotroph hyperplasia; Pituitary gland

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOTROPIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; MEROPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTH SECRETING CELL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY ABSCESS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYOCARDITIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; BLOOD; HYPERPLASIA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ACTH-SECRETING PITUITARY ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERPLASIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 68849093427     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1085997     Document Type: Article

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