Diagnosis, management and therapeutic outcome in prepubertal Cushing's disease

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 603-609

  Dias, R P ^a   Kumaran, A ^a   Chan, L F ^a   Martin, L ^a   Afshar, F ^a   Matson, M ^a   Plowman, P N ^a   Monson, J P ^a   Besser, G M ^a   Grossman, A B ^a   Savage, M O ^a   Storr, H L ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; INFERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREPUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SELECTIVE ADENOMECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRILIZATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADENOMA; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOASSAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRILISM;

EID: 77149142875     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: 1479683X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/EJE-09-0509     Document Type: Article

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