Ectopic ACTH-syndrome due to a neuroendocrine tumour of the appendix

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 525-529

  Perakakis, N ^a   Laubner, K ^a   Keck, T ^a   Steffl, D ^a   Lausch, M ^a   Meyer, P T ^a   Burger, D ^a   Csanadi, A ^a   Seufert, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

glucocorticoids; hyperandrogenemia; pituitary adenoma

Indexed keywords

6 FLUORODOPA F 18; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCORTISOLISM; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADULT; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054731691     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1284368     Document Type: Article

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