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Peripheral blood steroid levels in Cushing syndrome due to adrenocortical carcinoma or adenoma.

Urology 1983 December
Measurement of the peripheral vein levels of the steroids in the adrenal biosynthetic pathway affords a further possible definitive method of differentiating adrenocortical carcinoma from adrenal adenoma in the presence of Cushing syndrome. In patients with adrenal carcinoma the blood levels of 17-hydroxyprogesterone, testosterone, androstenedione, and dehydroepiandrosterone are far higher than those seen in association with adenoma. In addition, the adrenal cortical carcinoma appears to have a higher ratio of precursors to product in the early part of the biosynthetic path and a lower one in the distal portion than adrenal adenomas. In Cushing syndrome due to adrenal tumor the measurement of serum cortisol is preferably made after chromatographic separation from 11-deoxycortisol in view of the marked cross reactivity in the protein binding procedure.

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