Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Cushing’s syndrome is rare, but assessment of patients with clinical suspicion of Cushing’s and/or adrenal incidentaloma is frequently required. Thus, there is a need for biochemical screening methods that with high sensitivity and specificity identifies or rule out hypercortisolism. Analysis of late night salivary cortisol allows an easy sampling procedure performed at home and is independent of variations in plasma CBG levels. Analysis by liquid chrom...