Cyclical Cushing's Syndrome in a Patient with a Bronchial Neuroendocrine Tumor (Typical Carcinoid) Expressing Ghrelin and Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptors

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5834-5840

  Arnaldi, G ^a,c   Mancini, T ^a   Kola, B ^a   Appolloni, G ^a   Freddi, S ^a   Concettoni, C ^a   Bearzi, I ^a   Masini, A ^a   Boscaro, M ^a   Mantero, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Azienda Ospedaliera Umberto I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTISONE; DESMOPRESSIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR; HEXARELIN; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIUM 111; KETOCONAZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; OCTREOTIDE; POTASSIUM; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V3 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CANCER TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUSHING SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECTOPIC CORTICOTROPIN PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCORTISONE URINE LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NODULE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RELAPSE; REMISSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCINTIGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE HORMONES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RNA, MESSENGER; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

BRONCHUS; POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS;

EID: 9144243744     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2003-030514     Document Type: Article

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