Kaposi sarcoma related to an ectopic hypothalamic adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting adenoma: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 6 SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Yetkin, Demet O ^a   Kafadar, Ali ^a   Gazioglu, Nurperi ^a   Oz, Buge ^a   Kaner, Gultekin ^a   Oguz, Oya ^a   Kadioglu, Pinar ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cushing's syndrome; Immunosuppression; Kaposi sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEVOTHYROXINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUSHING SYNDROME; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DRUG MEGADOSE; FACIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKULL SURGERY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CHORISTOMA; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMIC NEOPLASMS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74549174163     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000344004.56155.B6     Document Type: Article

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