Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review

Despite advances in analytic and imaging techniques, the syndrome of ectopic adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) secretion from a tumour resulting in Cushing's syndrome continues to pose difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Dynamic testing may be equivocal and radiology indeterminat...

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Autores principales: Kenchaiah, Manohara, Hyer, Steve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22934197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/215038
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description Despite advances in analytic and imaging techniques, the syndrome of ectopic adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) secretion from a tumour resulting in Cushing's syndrome continues to pose difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Dynamic testing may be equivocal and radiology indeterminate. We report a patient presenting with Cushing's syndrome associated with ectopic ACTH secretion from a bronchial carcinoid whose management presented diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
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spelling pubmed-34205872012-08-29 Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review Kenchaiah, Manohara Hyer, Steve Case Rep Endocrinol Case Report Despite advances in analytic and imaging techniques, the syndrome of ectopic adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) secretion from a tumour resulting in Cushing's syndrome continues to pose difficult diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Dynamic testing may be equivocal and radiology indeterminate. We report a patient presenting with Cushing's syndrome associated with ectopic ACTH secretion from a bronchial carcinoid whose management presented diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3420587/ /pubmed/22934197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/215038 Text en Copyright © 2012 M. Kenchaiah and S. Hyer. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review
title Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review
title_full Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review
title_fullStr Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review
title_full_unstemmed Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review
title_short Cushing's Syndrome due to Ectopic ACTH from Bronchial Carcinoid: A Case Report and Review
title_sort cushing's syndrome due to ectopic acth from bronchial carcinoid: a case report and review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420587/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/215038
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