Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Differentiating Cushing’s disease (CD) from pseudo-Cushing’s syndrome (PCS) is one of the most challenging problems since no biological test is yet perfect. Almost 30 years ago our group demonstrated the interest of 4 mg i.v. dexamethasone suppressing test (DST) to differentiate obese patients to CD.Objective: To reevaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the 4 mg i.v. DST in carefully selected patients with PCS and CD.<p class="abstext...