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Bilateral testicular Leydig cell tumor with adrenocortical adenoma: a case report [PDF]
A case of bilateral testicular Leydig cell tumor with left adrenocortical adenoma in a 27-year-old male is presented. He underwent bilateral radical orchiectomy, and was diagnosed with a malignant Leydig cell tumor.
前田, 浩志 +3 more
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Effects of loperamide on the human hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in vivo and in vitro. [PDF]
Loperamide, an opiate agonist of high specificity for p-receptors, was recently reported to suppress ACTH and cortisol levels in normal subjects, but not in patients with proven ACTH-dependent Cushing’s disease. However, there is little information on
Auernhammer, Christoph J. +4 more
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Emerging methods for subtype differentiation in primary aldosteronism
Abstract Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a common cause of hypertension. Compared to patients with essential hypertension, untreated PA is associated with a two‐ to fourfold greater risk of cardiovascular disease, renal failure, and death. PA is caused by increased secretion of aldosterone from one adrenal gland in 30% of the patients and both adrenal ...
Oskar Ragnarsson +5 more
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A case of adrenal black adenoma associated with Cushing's syndrome [PDF]
The patient was a 24-year-old female, who had clinical and laboratory findings of Cushing's syndrome with slight virilizative changes. CT scan, ultrasound sonography and scintigraphy demonstrated that there was a functioning tumor at the right adrenal ...
亀岡, 浩 +7 more
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Biochemical and Physiological Effects of Galanin in Health and Disease
Galanin is a biologically active neuropeptide hormone that mediates its effects through three galanin receptors. Galanin signaling induces changes in glucose homeostasis amongst others and plays a dynamic role in the physiological health of many organ systems.
Patrick Mireles +3 more
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Corticotropinoma as a Component of Carney Complex. [PDF]
Known germline gene abnormalities cause one-fifth of the pituitary adenomas in children and adolescents, but, in contrast with other pituitary tumor types, the genetic causes of corticotropinomas are largely unknown.
Chittiboina, Prashant +11 more
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Harbouring a silent corticotroph tumour (SCT) compared to a silent gonadotroph tumour, being older at surgery and having a larger preoperative tumour were found to increase the likelihood of having postoperative pituitary failure in logistic regression analysis (n = 77).
Nasrin Al‐Shamkhi +5 more
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Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of autosomal recessive disorders related to adrenal steroid biosynthesis, and mainly caused by mutations in the CYP21A2 gene encoding 21-hydroxylase. Adrenal tumors are common in CAH, but functional adrenal
Qin Yan +10 more
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Tumors in von Hippel–Lindau Syndrome: From Head to Toe—Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review [PDF]
Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome (VHL) is an autosomal-dominant hereditary tumor disease that arises owing to germline mutations in the VHL gene, located on the short arm of chromosome 3.
Bhalla, Sanjeev +6 more
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Síndrome de conn causada por adenoma de adrenal-tratamento por videolaparoscopia
The authors present a case-report a 43 years old, female patient presenting with an eight-year history of hypertension caused by an adrenal adenoma. Hypokalemia and supressed plasma renina confirmed the diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism.
Sinthia Maria Benigno Puttini +2 more
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