Functioning Endocrine Tumors in Pregnancy: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges

The occurrence of endocrine tumors in pregnancy poses several diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Although rare, functioning tumors involving the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, and pancreas are reported in the literature. Timely diagnosis and management of these tumors are essential as they might l...

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Autores principales: Cherian, Kripa E., Kapoor, Nitin, Paul, Thomas V., Asha, Hesarghatta S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Endocrinology and Gender
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8793957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35136736
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.ijem_310_21
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author Cherian, Kripa E.
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description The occurrence of endocrine tumors in pregnancy poses several diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Although rare, functioning tumors involving the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, and pancreas are reported in the literature. Timely diagnosis and management of these tumors are essential as they might lead to adverse maternal and fetal outcomes if left untreated. This review is an attempt to characterize various functioning tumors that could occur in pregnancy, their clinical features, diagnosis, and management.
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spelling pubmed-87939572022-02-07 Functioning Endocrine Tumors in Pregnancy: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges Cherian, Kripa E. Kapoor, Nitin Paul, Thomas V. Asha, Hesarghatta S. Indian J Endocrinol Metab Endocrinology and Gender The occurrence of endocrine tumors in pregnancy poses several diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Although rare, functioning tumors involving the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, and pancreas are reported in the literature. Timely diagnosis and management of these tumors are essential as they might lead to adverse maternal and fetal outcomes if left untreated. This review is an attempt to characterize various functioning tumors that could occur in pregnancy, their clinical features, diagnosis, and management. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021 2021-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8793957/ /pubmed/35136736 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijem.ijem_310_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Functioning Endocrine Tumors in Pregnancy: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges
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