Treatment of Cushing disease: overview and recent findings
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Treatment of Cushing disease: overview and recent findings
Endogenous Cushing syndrome is an endocrine disease caused by excessive secretion of adrenocorticotropin hormone in approximately 80% of cases, usually by a pituitary corticotroph adenoma (Cushing disease [CD]). It is a heterogeneous disorder requiring a multidisciplinary and individualized approach to patient management. The goals of treatment of CD include the reversal of clinical features, t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1178-203X
DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.s12952