Paediatric cyclical Cushing's disease due to corticotroph cell hyperplasia.
Issue Date
2015-06Keywords
PAEDATRICSRARE DISEASE
Local subject classification
CUSHING'S DISEASEMeSH
AdolescentCorticotrophs
Humans
Hydrocortisone
Hyperplasia
Male
Periodicity
Pituitary ACTH Hypersecretion
Pituitary Diseases
Saliva
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Paediatric cyclical Cushing's disease due to corticotroph cell hyperplasia. 2015, 15:27 BMC Endocr DisordPublisher
BioMed CentralJournal
BMC endocrine disordersDOI
10.1186/s12902-015-0024-3PubMed ID
26063496Additional Links
http://bmcendocrdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12902-015-0024-3http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464624/
Abstract
Cushing's disease is very rare in the paediatric population. Although uncommon, corticotroph hyperplasia causing Cushing's syndrome has been described in the adult population, but appears to be extremely rare in children. Likewise, cyclical cortisol hypersecretion, while accounting for 15 % of adult cases of Cushing's disease, has only rarely been described in the paediatric population. Here, we describe a very rare case of a 13-year old boy with cyclical cortisol hypersecretion secondary to corticotroph cell hyperplasia.Item Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
1472-6823ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1186/s12902-015-0024-3