Ectopic ACTH-secreting syndrome: A single-center experience

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1007-1014

  Kakade, Harshal ^a   Kasaliwal, Rajeev ^a   Jagtap, Varsha ^a   Bukan, Amol ^a   Budyal, Sweta ^a   Khare, Shruti ^a   Lila, Anurag ^a   Bandgar, Tushar ^a   Menon, Padmavathy ^a   Shah, Nalini ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE; METYRAPONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX DISEASE; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISORDERS OF STEROID METABOLISM; ECTOPIC ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONESECRETING SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOKALEMIA; INFECTION; INFERIOR PETROSAL SINUS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROADENOMA; MOON FACE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR REVERSIBLE ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; PROTO ONCOGENE; SCHOOL CHILD; STRIA; THYROIDECTOMY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; GALLIUM; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY GLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888862904     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP13171.OR     Document Type: Article

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