Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Paediatric Cushing’s disease is rare and up to 50% have incomplete cure.1 Besides hypopituitarism growth failure is particularly common and maybe due to GH deficiency, target tissue resistance2 or accelerated skeletal maturation 3. Our patient is an 18-year-old obese male who first presented at the age of 16 with delayed puberty and short stature.Results: His 24 hr urinary cortisol was 1472 nmol/l, ACTH...