Metastatic Adrenocorticotropic Hormone-Secreting Breast Cancer Treated with Bilateral Adrenalectomy
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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone-Independent Cushing Syndrome with Bilateral Cortisol-Secreting Adenomas
A 48-year-old woman was incidentally found to have bilateral adrenal masses, 2.8 cm in diameter on the right, and 2.3 cm and 1.7 cm in diameter on the left, by abdominal computed tomography. The patient had a medical history of hypertension, which was not being controlled by carvedilol, at a dose of 25 mg daily. She presented with signs and symptoms that suggested Cushing Syndrome. We diagnosed...
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BACKGROUND The diagnosis of Cushing disease is based on endocrinological pa-rameters, with no single test being specific. In some patients, dynamic thin-slice sellar magnetic resonance imaging fails to detect a pituitary tumor. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of ectopic pituitary adenoma in this situation. METHODS In a retrospective chart review, 5 patients (6...
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عنوان ژورنال: AACE Clinical Case Reports
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2376-0605
DOI: 10.4158/accr-2018-0069