Simultaneous ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone syndrome and adrenal metastasis of a medullary thyroid carcinoma causing paraneoplastic Cushing's syndrome.

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Published in Int Semin Surg Oncol on July 02, 2007

Authors

Michael Sand¹, Samuel Uecker¹, Falk G Bechara², Marcos Gelos¹, Daniel Sand³, Till H Wiese⁴, Benno Mann¹

Author Affiliations

1: Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
2: Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
3: Department of Physiological Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
4: Department of Radiology, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

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