A young woman with pituitary-tumor, Cushing's syndrome and medullary thyroid carcinoma--a rare case of MEN II?
A young woman presented with Cushing's syndrome. As a repeat surgical resection of a pituitary tumor did not cure her a bilateral adrenalectomy was performed, which resulted in symptomatic improvement of the patients condition. Several months later, a medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MTC) was detected and resected. Retrospective analysis suggests that a paraneoplastic Cushing's syndrome may have been present in this patient. A connection of the pituitary tumor and the MTC could not be proved, a MEN-II-syndrome does not seem likely.
Kotzerke
J
J
Abt. Nuklearmedizin und spez. Biophysik, Medizinische Hochschule, Germany.
Oetting
G
G
Dralle
H
H
Hesch
H
H
Hundeshagen
H
H
D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003480:Cushing Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009377:Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology