A Double-Headed Physiologic Monster: A Case Report and Literature Review

Adrenal incidentaloma (AI) is rare and found in approximately 2-4% of abdominal computed tomography scans. Up to 10% of patients with AI have autonomous secretion of adrenal hormones. If not quickly diagnosed and adequately treated, the outcome may be devastating to the patient. On very rare occasio...

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Autores principales: Ebuh, Valentine, Avila, Juan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10466258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37654907
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44362
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description Adrenal incidentaloma (AI) is rare and found in approximately 2-4% of abdominal computed tomography scans. Up to 10% of patients with AI have autonomous secretion of adrenal hormones. If not quickly diagnosed and adequately treated, the outcome may be devastating to the patient. On very rare occasions, a pheochromocytoma may, in addition to the production of catecholamine, produce adrenocorticotropic hormone causing Cushing disease. We present a case of a patient with pheochromocytoma and Cushing syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-104662582023-08-31 A Double-Headed Physiologic Monster: A Case Report and Literature Review Ebuh, Valentine Avila, Juan Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Adrenal incidentaloma (AI) is rare and found in approximately 2-4% of abdominal computed tomography scans. Up to 10% of patients with AI have autonomous secretion of adrenal hormones. If not quickly diagnosed and adequately treated, the outcome may be devastating to the patient. On very rare occasions, a pheochromocytoma may, in addition to the production of catecholamine, produce adrenocorticotropic hormone causing Cushing disease. We present a case of a patient with pheochromocytoma and Cushing syndrome. Cureus 2023-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10466258/ /pubmed/37654907 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44362 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ebuh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short A Double-Headed Physiologic Monster: A Case Report and Literature Review
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topic Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10466258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37654907
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44362
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