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Cushing Disease Presenting as Arthritis

  • Ketan Prasad Kulkarni and Inderpal Singh Kochar
Published/Copyright: September 17, 2010
Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism
From the journal Volume 23 Issue 6

ABSTRACT

Cushing's syndrome is an endocrine disorder caused by hypercortisolism. Despite its varied clinical spectrum of presentation, Cushing's disease has not been reported to present as arthritis. Moreover, keratilysis exfolitiva has not been described in Cushing disease. We report a 12 year old male child with pituitary micro adenoma initially presenting as arthritis and developing keratilysis exfolitiva


Correspondencing Author: Dr Inderpal Singh Kochar,
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Published Online: 2010-09-17
Published in Print: 2010-June

© Freund Publishing House Ltd. 2010

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