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Cushing’s disease is most of the time due to a pituitary corticotropic-cell adenoma. The treatment of this disease is surgical: it consists in a selective adenoma removal. Detection by computed tomography is thus essential, but such detection is not easy because on the one hand the lesion is often very small and on the other the obesity, the buffalo neck, and the backache characteristic of Cushing’s disease, render direct coronal sections and dynamic scan difficult. Moreover, the tuft sign may be uncertain or even absent for certain corticotropic-cell microadenomas localized on the midline.
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Bonneville, JF., Cattin, F., Dietemann, JL. (1986). ACTH-Secreting Pituitary Adenomas. In: Computed Tomography of the Pituitary Gland. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70375-1_9
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