title: [Special diagnosis in Cushing's syndrome].
abstract: The diagnostic results in 32 patients (23 female, 9 male) with Cushing's syndrome are presented. 20 patients had pituitary Cushing's syndrome (mean age 36.2 +/- 15.9 years), 7 unilateral adrenal adenoma (mean age 37.1 +/- 15.3 years) and 4 (mean age 54.8 +/- 10.8 years) carcinoma of one adrenal gland. One patient had an ectopic ACTH syndrome based on a Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. Hypertension was observed in 84% of the 32 patients. The basal urinary excretion rates were pathologically high in 99% of all measurements, while the excretion rates for 17-OH-steroids were pathologically elevated only in 61% of all measurements. Radioscanning of the adrenal glands was performed in 11 patients with 131I-cholesterol derivatives of NP-59. 4 patients with pituitary Cushing's syndrome had bilaterally increased uptake of activity, while 3 patients with adenoma had uptake of the radiolabeled drug on the side of the lesion. In all 4 patients with a carcinoma, uptake was absent or insufficient. The results show that measurement of the basal urinary excretion rate of free cortisol is a more sensitive means for detection of hypercorticism than measurement of 17-hydroxysteroids. Radioscanning of the adrenal glands provides reliable results in pituitary Cushing's syndrome and adenomas, but, in our cases, not in carcinomas.
mesh_terms: D015067:17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases / Q000652:urine; D000236:Adenoma / Q000150:complications; D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000150:complications; D002784:Cholesterol; D003480:Cushing Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000652:urine; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000150:complications; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D015043:Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D002784:Cholesterol; D015067:17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases; D006854:Hydrocortisone
vernacular_title: Spezielle Diagnostik des Cushing-Syndroms.