Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), a very rare tumor in children in the United States, is apparently more common among Brazilian children. We reviewed the medical records of 40 children whose disease was diagnosed between 1966 and 1987. There were 12 boys and 28 girls; their median age was 3.9 years
A four-year-old previously well boy collapsed unexpectedly and was taken immediately to hospital, where he developed seizures and cardiogenic shock with lethal, rapidly progressing multi-organ failure. At autopsy, the height was >90th percentile and there were indications of early virilization.
The purpose of this study was to estimate the net cost effect to Medicare of the increasing use of recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) instead of red blood cell transfusions or androgens in the management of anemia for the approximately 100,000 hemodialysis patients in the U.S. End-Stage Renal
A diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency should be suspected in the presence of a number of non-specific symptoms (fatigue, anorexia, weight loss, hypotension, hyponatremia and hyperkalemia amongst adrenal causes of insufficiency). The diagnosis should be considered in case of pituitary disease or a
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