Cushing’s disease: Pituitary surgery versus adrenalectomy

Omayma El-Shafie; Fatma B. Abid; Nayal Al-Kindy; Dilip Sankhla; Nicholas J. Woodhouse

Cushing’s disease: Pituitary surgery versus adrenalectomy

Omayma El-Shafie^*, Fatma B. Abid, Nayal Al-Kindy, Dilip Sankhla, Nicholas J. Woodhouse

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Abstract

We describe two patients of the Department of Medicine at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, with Cushing’s disease. Their magnetic resonance imaging scans of the pituitary were negative. One patient was treated by transsphenoidal surgery and the other by bilateral endoscopic adrenalectomy. Both procedures were successful and the patients cured. The advantages and disadvantages of these two approaches are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-214
Number of pages	4
Journal	Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
Volume	8
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Jul 2008

Keywords

Adrenalectomy
Case report
Cushing’s disease
Endoscopy
Oman
Pituitary
Surgery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine

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