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New avenues in the medical treatment of Cushing’s disease: corticotroph tumor targeted therapy

Cushing’s disease (CD) is a condition of chronic hypercortisolism caused by an adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting pituitary adenoma. First-line transsphenoidal surgery is not always curative and disease sometimes recurs. Radiotherapy often requires months or years to be effective, and is also not...

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Autores principales: Fleseriu, Maria, Petersenn, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23673515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11060-013-1151-1