Sharaf Majd, Al-Saqqa Rama, Kourabi Mouhammad
Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.
Department of General Surgery, Al-Mouwasat University Hospital, Damascus, Syria.
Radiol Case Rep. 2021 Aug 25;16(11):3168-3171. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.093. eCollection 2021 Nov.
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.
长期糖皮质激素过量会导致库欣综合征。库欣综合征表现为多种体征和症状,包括:向心性肥胖、近端肌肉无力、疲劳性紫纹、伤口愈合不良、闭经等。促肾上腺皮质激素(ACTH)非依赖性库欣综合征通常由单侧腺瘤引起。其罕见病因是双侧肾上腺腺瘤。在本文中,我们报告了一例因双侧肾上腺腺瘤导致库欣综合征的43岁女性病例。