Myelolipomatous adrenal masses causing cushing's syndrome

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 440-445

  Lamas, C ^a   Lopez L M ^a   Lozano, E ^a   Atienzar, M ^b   Ruiz Mondejar R ^a   Alfaro, J J ^a   Botella, F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland; Adrenal incidentaloma; Cushing's syndrome; Myelolipoma

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADRENAL MYELOLIPOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERCORTISOLISM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MYELOID METAPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; AGED; CUSHING SYNDROME; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOLIPOMA; OBESITY;

EID: 70350436690     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1202274     Document Type: Article

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