High frequency of adrenal myelolipomas and testicular adrenal rest tumours in adult Norwegian patients with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia because of 21-hydroxylase deficiency

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 753-759

  Nermoen, Ingrid ^a   Rørvik, Jarle ^b,c   Holmedal, Stein H ^a   Hykkerud, Dan L ^a   Fougner, Kristian J ^d,e   Svartberg, Johan ^f,g   Husebye, Eystein S ^b,c   Løvås, Kristian ^b,c  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTAGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYELOLIPOMA; NORWAY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT WASTING; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; TESTICULAR ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; TESTIS SIZE; VIRILIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENAL REST TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOLIPOMA; NORWAY; PREVALENCE; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80855133550     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2011.04151.x     Document Type: Article

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