Abstract
Cushing’s syndrome is due to chronically increased levels of circulating glucocorticoid hormones, and manifests itself, as Cushing himself described it in 1932, as truncal obesity, amenorrhea, hirsutism, hypertension, abdominal striae, polyphagia, polydipsia, polycythaemia and susceptibility to infections.
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Neville, A.M., O’Hare, M.J. (1982). Cushing’s Syndrome. In: The Human Adrenal Cortex. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1317-1_12
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