Medical treatment of Cushing's disease: Overview and recent findings

Autor: Stephanie Smooke Praw, Anthony P Heaney
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: International Journal of General Medicine, Vol 2009, Iss default, Pp 209-217 (2009)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1178-7074
Popis: Stephanie Smooke Praw1, Anthony P Heaney1,21Department of Medicine, 2Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USAAbstract: Cushing's disease, due to pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) hypersecretion, is the most common etiology of spontaneous excess cortisol production. The majority of pituitary tumors causing Cushing's disease measure
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