Possible ACTH-independent, cortisol-secreting and DHEA-secreting metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma causing Cushing's syndrome

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sacerdote, Alan ^a   Inoue, Taiga ^a   Thomas, Nithin ^b   Bahtiyar, Gul ^a  

^a WOODHULL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b State University of New York Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLUTETHIMIDE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; MITOTANE; PRASTERONE;

ADRENAL BIOPSY; ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; IMMUNOASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRASTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PRASTERONE RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; URINE FREE CORTISOL; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL TUMOR; BIOPSY; BLOOD; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPLICATION; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; SECRETION (PROCESS); TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ACTH SYNDROME, ECTOPIC; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84954227402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2015-211520     Document Type: Article

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