KROK 1 2009 – Question 86 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient with android-type obesity had been suffering from arterial hypertension, hyperglycemia, glycosuria for a long time and died from the cerebral haemorrhage. Pathologic examination revealed pituitary basophil adenoma, adrenal cortex hyperplasia. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- A. Adiposogenital dystrophy
- B. Pituitary nanism
- C. Diabetes mellitus
- D. Itsenko-Cushing’s syndrome
- E. Acromegalia
Hint
Combine truncal obesity, hypertension and glucose intolerance with a pituitary basophil adenoma and adrenocortical hyperplasia, and ask which hormonal axis is overactive.
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