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Acromegaly in a patient with a pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor: case report and review of current literature

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors (NET) form a heterogeneous group of rare diseases. In these tumors, paraneoplastic syndromes have been described to drive the course of the disease, among them acromegaly induced by paraneoplastic secretion of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH). CASE...

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Autores principales: Krug, Sebastian, Boch, Michael, Rexin, Peter, Pfestroff, Andreas, Gress, Thomas, Michl, Patrick, Rinke, Anja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27349224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2132-1