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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine · 2016

Autopsy of a 40-year-old woman, who died of cerebral hemorrhage during hypertensic crisis, revealed: upper-body obesity, hypertrichosis, hirsutism, stretchmarks on the skin of thighs and abdomen. Pituitary basophil adenoma is detected in the anterior lobe. What diagnosis is the most likely?

Answer options

  1. Essential hypertension
  2. Cushing’s disease
  3. Alimentary obesity
  4. Hypothalamic obesity
  5. Simmonds’ disease
Correct answer

Cushing’s disease

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