Ectopic acromegaly due to growth hormone releasing hormone

Endocrine

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 293-302

  Ghazi, Ali A ^a   Amirbaigloo, Alireza ^a   Dezfooli, Azizollah Abbasi ^b   Saadat, Navid ^a   Ghazi, Siavash ^a   Pourafkari, Marina ^c   Tirgari, Farrokh ^d   Dhall, Dheepti ^e   Bannykh, Serguei ^e   Melmed, Shlomo ^e   Cooper, Odelia ^e  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Ectopic; GHRH; Paraganglioma

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR;

ACROMEGALY; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC ACROMEGALY; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARAGANGLIOMA; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84879551291     PISSN: 1355008X     EISSN: 15590100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12020-012-9790-0     Document Type: Review

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