ESPE Abstracts

Background: The overall incidence of Cushing’s syndrome in children is ~0.2–0.5 new cases per million people per year. Cushing’s disease is more infrequent under 7-year-old children. The typical symptoms are not often observed in childhood. Therefore, the early diagnosis is difficult, when pituitary tumour is not detected by pituitary MRI.Objective and hypotheses: A 5-year-old boy was referred to our hospital by a decrease in growth veloci...