OBJECTIVE To review and discuss the diagnostic and surgical therapeutic methods of adrenocortical hyperplastic disease. METHODS A retrospective analysis was done to 180 adrenocortical hyperplasia patients (74 males, 109 females, aged 6~76 (average 40.1). Studies were done to the relationship between patients' clinical characteristics, biochemical, endocrinological and imaging examination resu...

Endogenous Cushing's syndrome is a rare endocrine disorder that incurs significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, due to glucocorticoid excess. It comprises adrenal (20%) and non-adrenal (80%) aetiologies. While the majority of cases are attributed to pituitary or ectopic corticotropin (ACTH) overproduction, primary cortisol-producing adrenal cortical lesions are increasingly recognise...

BACKGROUND Adrenocoricotrophic hormone (ACTH) - independent bilateral adrenocortical macronodular hyperplasia (AIMAH) is a rare cause of Cushing's syndrome, and is characterized by bilateral adrenal hyperplasia. However, Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a relatively common adrenal disease. CASE PRESENTATION A 56-year-old man who has been treated hypertension and diabetes mellitus was detected lo...

The most common form of the congenital adrenal hyperplasia syndrome is caused by an inefficient enzymatic hydroxylation of the adrenal steroids at the 21 position (1-4). The symptoms of this disease can be explained by a deficiency in cortisol secretion resulting in an increased ACTH output and an overproduction of androgens and cortisol precursors by the hyperplastic adrenals (5, 6). About a t...

BACKGROUND Neurofibromatosis type I (NF1, MIM#162200) is a relatively frequent genetic condition, which predisposes to tumor formation. Apart from tumors, individuals with NF1 often exhibit endocrine abnormalities such as precocious puberty (2,5-5% of NF1 patients) and some cases of hypertension (16% of NF1 patients). Several cases of adrenal cortex adenomas have been described in NF1 individua...

A case is described of a three-day-old female with salt wasting type of 21-hydroxylase deficient congenital adrenal hyperplasia who presented with acanthosis nigricans of both axillae. Following corticosteroid and mineralocorticoid therapy for disease, the acanthosis nigricans resolved. It is believed that this is the first reported case of acanthosis nigricans occurring in association with con...