ea0050ep071 | Neuroendocrinology and Pituitary | SFEBES2017
Novodvorsky Peter
, Ince Paul G
, Sinha Saurabh
, Debono Miguel
Introduction: Cushings disease is usually caused by functional corticotroph microadenomas of the pituitary. Crookes cell adenomas are rare, representing approximately 2% of corticotroph adenomas and mostly present as aggressive macroadenomas. Pituitary adenomas showing immunoreactivity for both ACTH and GH are also very uncommon. We present two cases of Cushings disease caused by macroadenomas with Crookes cell cha...