ACTH-independent Cushing's syndrome due to bilateral adrenocortical adenoma: A case report. 2021

Majd Sharaf, and Rama Al-Saqqa, and Mouhammad Kourabi
Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.

The chronic excess of glucocorticoids results in Cushing's syndrome. Cushing's syndrome presents with a variety of signs and symptoms including: central obesity, proximal muscle weakness, fatigue striae, poor wound healing, amenorrhea, and others. ACTHindependent Cushing's syndrome is usually due to unilateral adenoma. A rare cause of it is bilateral adrenal adenomas. In this paper we report a case of a 43-year-old woman with Cushing's syndrome due to bilateral adrenal adenoma.

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