Efficacy and Safety of Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Cushing ’s Disease: A Single Center Experience

Conclusion In this current single center experience, postoperative cortisol and 1mg DST levels were found as the determinants of time to remission. Although medical therapy before RT did not affect the rate of- and time to remission, medical therapy after RT prolonged the time to biochemical control . This latter finding might suggest a radioprotective effect of cortisol lowering medication use on peri-RT period. [...] © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New YorkArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents  |  Abstract  |  Full text
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