KROK 1 2016 – Question 81 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
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?
- A. Simmonds’ disease
- B. Essential hypertension
- C. Cushing’s disease
- D. Hypothalamic obesity
- E. Alimentary obesity
Hint
Combine the body-habitus changes, skin striae and hypertension with the pituitary finding to decide which endocrine syndrome and which hormonal axis are involved.
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