An unusual presentation of pediatric Cushing disease: recurrent corticotropinoma of the posterior pituitary lobe.

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Published in J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab on June 01, 2010

Authors

Monalisa F Azevedo1, Paraskevi Xekouki, Meg F Keil, Eileen Lange, Nicholas Patronas, Constantine A Stratakis

Author Affiliations

1: Section on Endocrinology and Genetics, Program on Developmental Endocrinology Genetics (PDEGEN), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. monalisa.azevedo@nih.gov

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