Cushing's Syndrome and Corticotropin-secreting Carcinoma of the Lung
- 1 January 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American College of Physicians in Annals of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 58 (1), 143-149
- https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-58-1-143
Abstract
Bioassay of the primary lung tumor and the pituitary revealed significant cortico-tropic activity in the tumor but none in the pituitary. It is postulated that the autonomous secretion of a corticotropic hormone by the oat-cell carcinoma was the cause of the Cushing''s syndrome.Keywords
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