{"id":31,"date":"2013-10-14T04:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T04:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-10-14T04:47:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T04:47:51","slug":"ectopic-acth-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/ectopic-acth-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Ectopic ACTH production"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ectopic ACTH Syndrome<\/h3>\n<p>Also known as EAS<\/p>\n<h3>Sources of Ectopic ACTH production.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lung<\/strong> = most common cause.<\/li>\n<li>Thymus<\/li>\n<li>Thyroid &#8211; <strong>Medullary carcinoma<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ovary<\/li>\n<li>Adrenal Gland &#8211; pheochromocytoma<\/li>\n<li>Liver<\/li>\n<li>Pancreas<\/li>\n<li>Other neuroendocrine cancers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Difference between Cushings syndrome and Cushings disease<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cushings <strong>syndrome<\/strong> is cortisol excess from <strong>any<\/strong> cause.<\/li>\n<li>Cushings <strong>disease<\/strong> is cortisol excess by <strong>pituitary<\/strong> ACTH over-secretion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Presentation found on the internet regarding Ectopic ACTH production:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/web\/ectopicacth.pdf\">http:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/web\/ectopicacth.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ectopic ACTH Syndrome Also known as EAS Sources of Ectopic ACTH production. Lung = most common cause. Thymus Thyroid &#8211; Medullary carcinoma Ovary Adrenal Gland &#8211; pheochromocytoma Liver Pancreas Other neuroendocrine cancers Difference between Cushings syndrome and Cushings disease Cushings syndrome is cortisol excess from any cause. Cushings disease is cortisol excess by pituitary ACTH &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/ectopic-acth-production\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ectopic ACTH production<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,33,36,35,34],"tags":[39,38,37],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-cushings-syndrome","category-ectopic-acth","category-lung","category-medullary-thyroid-cancer","tag-cushings-disease","tag-ectopic","tag-lung-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}