Urinary steroid metabolites in a case of florid Ectopic Cushing’s syndrome and clinical correlations

Angelos Kyriacou, Karolina M. Stepien, Basil Issa

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A 51-year old woman was admitted with multiple cerebral, pulmonary and intra-abdominal abscesses. The combination of apparent immunosuppression, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypokalaemia, osteoporotic fractures and bilateral shoulder avascular necrosis led to a clinical diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome (CS) …