Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) adenomas causing Cushing’s disease (CD) have been recognized as an aggressive and invasive subtype of pituitary adenomas. Remission of CD without surgical or medical treatment is an extremely rare occurrence. Moreover, a clinically relevant peculiarity of these tumors, though rarely observed, is their ability to modify their clinical expression from a silent form to CD or vice versa, the latter even more unexpected. We describe the case ...