Total adrenal volume but not testicular adrenal rest tumor volume is associated with hormonal control in patients with 21-hydroxylase deficiency

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2065-2072

  Reisch, Nicole ^a,b   Scherr, Michael ^a   Flade, Linda ^a   Bidlingmaier, Martin ^a   Schwarz, Hans Peter ^a   Müller Lisse, Ullrich ^a   Reincke, Martin ^a   Quinkler, Marcus ^c   Beuschlein, Felix ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PREGNANETRIOL; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADULT; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC TISSUE; GESTAGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT WASTING; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; TESTIS TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND; BODY MASS; CHILD; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; DRUG COMBINATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENAL REST TUMOR; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952766528     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-1929     Document Type: Article

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