Cushing's syndrome in childhood

Abstract

We report clinical features, laboratory findings and MRI of hypophysis in two children of pubertal age with Cushing's disease. The first patient had typical clinical picture of Cushing's syndrome.

The second one had only initial clinical features of this disease at the time of diagnosis.

Keywords

• Cushing´s disease
• pituitary microadenoma
• hypercortisolemia
• growth disorder
• disorder of pubertal development
• hypersecretion of adrenal androgens.