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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302007000800010
Although in the majority of the patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS), hypercortisolism is due to ACTH hypersecretion by a pituitary tumour or to ectopic ACTH secretion from an extrapituitary neoplastic lesion or to autonomous cortisol secretion by an adrenal tumour, in occasional patients a much rarer entity may be the cause of the syndrome. Herein, we attempted to summarise and categorise these unusual causes according to their presumed aetiology. To this end, we performed a comprehensive computer-based search for unusual […]
Keywords: Cushing’s syndrome; Ectopic adenomas; Gangliocytomas; Glucocorticoid hypersensitivity; Megestrol