Diagnosis of Cushing's disease in a patient with consistently normal urinary free cortisol levels: a case report

The urinary free cortisol (UFC) test is widely used for the screening of Cushing's syndrome. This case study illustrates the potential failure of the UFC test to correctly diagnose Cushing's disease (CD), indicating that the use of other complementary tests may be necessary to diagnose thi...

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Autores principales: Moloney, Kelley J., Mercado, Jennifer U., Ludlam, William H., Broyles, Frances E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.647
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Mercado, Jennifer U.
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spelling pubmed-51343322016-12-15 Diagnosis of Cushing's disease in a patient with consistently normal urinary free cortisol levels: a case report Moloney, Kelley J. Mercado, Jennifer U. Ludlam, William H. Broyles, Frances E. Clin Case Rep Case Reports The urinary free cortisol (UFC) test is widely used for the screening of Cushing's syndrome. This case study illustrates the potential failure of the UFC test to correctly diagnose Cushing's disease (CD), indicating that the use of other complementary tests may be necessary to diagnose this disease in some cases. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5134332/ /pubmed/27980758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.647 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title Diagnosis of Cushing's disease in a patient with consistently normal urinary free cortisol levels: a case report
title_full Diagnosis of Cushing's disease in a patient with consistently normal urinary free cortisol levels: a case report
title_fullStr Diagnosis of Cushing's disease in a patient with consistently normal urinary free cortisol levels: a case report
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title_short Diagnosis of Cushing's disease in a patient with consistently normal urinary free cortisol levels: a case report
title_sort diagnosis of cushing's disease in a patient with consistently normal urinary free cortisol levels: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134332/
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