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
- Essential hypertension
- Cushing’s disease
- Alimentary obesity
- Hypothalamic obesity
- Simmonds’ disease
Correct answer
Cushing’s disease
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