Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Urinary cortisol and metabolites represents total cortisol production and metabolism. We assayed these metabolites to compared the information that could be extracted compared to the one provided by a sole cortisol assay.Design and patients: An inexpensive multiplex mass spectrometry assay was set up to quantify cortisol and its metabolites in 43 patients with benign secreting (AT+) or silent (AT−) adrenal tumours compared to 48 lean (Nl...