Endocrine Abstracts

Diagnosis and treatment of Cushing’s disease is one of the greatest challenges of modern endocrinology. This is related to the fact that pituitary corticotropinomas are small tumours that are difficult to visualize in magnetic resonance imaging (MR). In about 40% of patients with Cushing’s disease, MR scans of the pituitary gland do not reveal any changes. The method that allows to localize the source of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) secretion is bilateral inferior pe...