The search for ectopic ACTH production in a 9-year-old boy

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 26, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 781-783

  Luca, Paola D ^a,b   Orena, Asaf ^a,b   Somers, Gino R ^a   Urbach, Stacey L ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cushing's disease; Cushing's syndrome; Ectopic ACTH syndrome; Neuroendocrine tumors

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; NIFEDIPINE; OCTREOTIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ACNE; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHINGOID SYNDROME; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE; FLANK PAIN; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMAGE QUALITY; INFERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RARE DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; TACHYCARDIA; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; CHILD; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PITUITARY ACTH HYPERSECRETION;

EID: 84881500524     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: 21910251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpem-2012-0337     Document Type: Article

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