A thymic carcinoid tumour causing Zollinger-Ellison and Cushing’s syndromes due to ectopic ACTH and gastrin secretion

Noel P. Somasundaram, Chaminda Garusinghe, Dan Berney, Ashley B. Grossman

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Cushings’s syndrome due to ectopic adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) secretion was first described nearly a century ago by Hurst Brown. Bronchial carcinomas, usually bronchial carcinoids, were the first to be described and continue to be the leading cause of the ectopic ACTH syndrome …