Overt immune dysfunction after cushing's syndrome remission: A consecutive case series and review of the literature

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Da Mota, Filipe ^a   Murray, Cathy ^a   Ezzat, Shereen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; PROPRANOLOL; STEROID; THIAMAZOLE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECZEMA; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INCIDENCE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MAST CELL; PITUITARY MACROADENOMA; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; REMISSION; ROSACEA; SARCOIDOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TURNER SYNDROME;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECZEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; KETOCONAZOLE; LASER THERAPY; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSORIASIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; ROSACEA; SARCOIDOSIS; STEROIDS; THYROID DISEASES; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 80053466054     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2011-1317     Document Type: Article

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