Cushing's syndrome due to autonomous macronodular adrenal hyperplasia: long-term follow-up after unilateral adrenalectomy.
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Is unilateral adrenalectomy an alternative treatment for ACTH-independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia?: Long-term follow-up of four cases.
OBJECTIVE ACTH-independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia is a rare cause of Cushing's syndrome. Bilateral adrenalectomy is considered the treatment of choice, but the patient is obliged to receive lifetime steroid replacement therapy and is susceptible to adrenal insufficiency crisis. New therapeutic alternatives are being proposed as new etiopathological features of the disease are known. U...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Postgraduate medical journal
دوره 72 852 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996