Ectopic Cushing's syndrome secondary to lung and mediastinal tumours - Report from a tertiary care centre in Iran

Endokrynologia Polska

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-9

  Ghazi, Ali A ^a   Dezfooli, Azizollah Abbasi ^b   Amirbaigloo, Alireza ^a,c   Kakhki, Abolghasem Daneshvar ^b   Mohammadi, Farzaneh ^b   Tirgari, Farrokh ^d   Pourafkari, Marina ^e  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Carcinoid; Carcinoma; Ectopic Cushing's syndrome; Lung; Mediastinum

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; KETOCONAZOLE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; ECTOPIC CUSHING SYNDROME; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG LESION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MEDIASTINUM MASS; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; THORACOTOMY; ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; COMPLICATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; IRAN;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADULT; AGED; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84924933979     PISSN: 0423104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/EP.2015.0002     Document Type: Article

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