Endocrine Abstracts

The diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome (CS) remains a major clinical challenge especially in a proportion of patients that have discordant results in the available tests. Although the measurement of 24-h urine free cortisol (UFC) is a useful test for the diagnosis of CS, 10–15% of patients have at least one measurement within the normal range and multiple measurements may be required in order to raise its sensitivity. In this study we sought to evaluate the value of the...