Virilization of a female infant by a maternal adrenocortical carcinoma

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Morris, Lilah F ^a   Park, Steven ^a   Daskivich, Timothy ^a   Churchill, Bernard M ^a   Rao, C V ^b   Lei, Zhenmin ^c   Martinez, Dorothy S ^a   Yeh, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MITOTANE;

ACNE; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CUSHING SYNDROME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; PUERPERIUM; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRIA; UROGENITAL SINUS; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VIRILIZATION; WEAKNESS;

EID: 79959196535     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP10209.CR     Document Type: Article

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