A misleading cause of pseudo-thymic tumor in ectopic Cushing's syndrome.

[cushing syndrome]

A 27 -year -old man was referred with typical features of severe Cushing 's syndrome . A bilateral adrenalectomy was performed . Three months later , a triangular nodular mediastinal enlargement , evocative of a right anterior thymic tumor , was discovered . Thymectomy was undertaken . Histological examination revealed diffuse thymic hyperplasia with negative immunostaining for adrenocorticotropic hormone . Five years later , a right endobronchial tumor corresponding to a carcinoid tumor was removed .

Diseases
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Diseases presenting "bilateral adrenalectomy" symptom

adrenal incidentaloma

congenital adrenal hyperplasia

cushing syndrome

von hippel-lindau disease

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