INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME

High potency or/and extended use of topical corticosteroids, particularly in children, may cause suppression of the hypothalamopituitary-adrenal axis. However, iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in infantile age group is very rare and only a few patients have been reported to date in the literature....

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Autores principales: Katar, Selahattin, Akdeniz, Sedat, Özbek, M Nuri, Yaramiş, Ahmet
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19882032
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44793
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author Katar, Selahattin
Akdeniz, Sedat
Özbek, M Nuri
Yaramiş, Ahmet
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description High potency or/and extended use of topical corticosteroids, particularly in children, may cause suppression of the hypothalamopituitary-adrenal axis. However, iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in infantile age group is very rare and only a few patients have been reported to date in the literature. Here, we report a case of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in a 6-month-old male child whose parents have admitted to the hospital for overweight and skin fragility.
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spelling pubmed-27637722009-10-29 INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME Katar, Selahattin Akdeniz, Sedat Özbek, M Nuri Yaramiş, Ahmet Indian J Dermatol Case Report High potency or/and extended use of topical corticosteroids, particularly in children, may cause suppression of the hypothalamopituitary-adrenal axis. However, iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in infantile age group is very rare and only a few patients have been reported to date in the literature. Here, we report a case of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome in a 6-month-old male child whose parents have admitted to the hospital for overweight and skin fragility. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2763772/ /pubmed/19882032 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44793 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
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Katar, Selahattin
Akdeniz, Sedat
Özbek, M Nuri
Yaramiş, Ahmet
INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME
title INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME
title_full INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME
title_fullStr INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME
title_full_unstemmed INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME
title_short INFANTILE IATROGENIC CUSHING'S SYNDROME
title_sort infantile iatrogenic cushing's syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19882032
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.44793
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