Case 40-2011: A 52-year-old man with weakness, infections, and enlarged adrenal glands

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 2520-2530

  Tritos, Nicholas A ^a,b   Schaefer, Pamela W ^a,b   Stein, Thor D ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DAPTOMYCIN; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUDROCORTISONE; GADOLINIUM; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; METYRAPONE; NAFCILLIN; POTASSIUM; PREDNISONE; WARFARIN; CORTICOTROPIN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ECCHYMOSIS; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INFECTION; INTESTINE SOUND; IRRITABILITY; LAPAROTOMY; LEG EDEMA; LEG SWELLING; LIMB PAIN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LAVAGE; MALAISE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NELSON SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; SIGMOID; SKIN BRUISING; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL GLAND; BLOOD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HYPERPLASIA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOMA; ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERPLASIA; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NELSON SYNDROME; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84855406856     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1100919     Document Type: Article

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