Endocrine Abstracts

Case history: We report the case of a previously healthy 69-year-old female who was referred to our centre after she presented with rapidly progressive weight-gain, hyperglycaemia, hypokalaemia and hypertension. She had no symptoms suggestive of carcinoid syndrome. On assessment, she had pathognomonic features of Cushing’s syndrome: central weight gain (peripheral wasting) proximal myopathy, leg oedema, skin thinning, bruising and facial puffiness; this appearance being m...