Clinical usefulness of corticotropin releasing hormone testing in subclinical cushing's syndrome for predicting cortisol replacement after adrenalectomy

Korean Journal of Urology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 414-418

  Inoue, Masahiro ^a   Ide, Hisamitsu ^a   Kurihara, Koji ^a   Koseki, Tatsuro ^a   Yu, Jingsong ^a   China, Toshiyuki ^a   Saito, Keisuke ^a   Isotani, Shuji ^a   Muto, Satoru ^a   Horie, Shigeo ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Cushing syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL SCINTISCANNING; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE TEST; CUSHING SYNDROME; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84863822505     PISSN: 20056737     EISSN: 20056745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4111/kju.2012.53.6.414     Document Type: Article

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