Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor that Progressed to Ectopic Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH) Syndrome with Growth Hormone-releasing Hormone (GHRH) Production

The patient was a 61-year-old woman who had a well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET) with lymph node metastasis. After 15 months of octreotide treatment, glucose control deteriorated and pigmentation of the tongue and moon face developed, leading to the diagnosis of ectopic adren...

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Autores principales: Tadokoro, Rie, Sato, Shotaro, Otsuka, Fumiko, Ueno, Makoto, Ohkawa, Shinichi, Katakami, Hideki, Taniyama, Matsuo, Nagasaka, Shoichiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27746436

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