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The elusive culprit: a renal neuroendocrine tumor unmasked by ectopic Cushing syndrome.

  • Veronika Denysova1
  • Vladimir Yutkin2
  • Anat Bel-Angе1
  • Karine Atlan3,4
  • Elena Solomonov5
  • Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg1,4
5 affiliations
  1. 1Neuroendocrine Tumor Unit, ENETS Center of Excellence, Division of Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
  2. 2Urology Department, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
  3. 3Department of Pathology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
  4. 4Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel.
  5. 5Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
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Abstract

The case provides insight into the diagnostics and management of ectopic Cushing syndrome caused by the ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) secretion by a primary renal neuroendocrine tumor (RenNET), an exceptionally rare cause of endogenous hypercortisolism.

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@article{denysova2026elusive,
  title = {{The elusive culprit: a renal neuroendocrine tumor unmasked by ectopic Cushing syndrome.}},
  author = {Veronika Denysova and Vladimir Yutkin and Anat Bel-Angе and Karine Atlan and Elena Solomonov and Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg},
  journal = {JCEM case reports},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  doi = {10.1210/jcemcr/luag341},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42996819},
  note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - The elusive culprit: a renal neuroendocrine tumor unmasked by ectopic Cushing syndrome.
AU  - Veronika Denysova
AU  - Vladimir Yutkin
AU  - Anat Bel-Angе
AU  - Karine Atlan
AU  - Elena Solomonov
AU  - Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/06
JO  - JCEM case reports
DO  - 10.1210/jcemcr/luag341
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42996819
AB  - The case provides insight into the diagnostics and management of ectopic Cushing syndrome caused by the ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) secretion by a primary renal neuroendocrine tumor (RenNET), an exceptionally rare cause of endogenous hypercortisolism.
SN  - 2755-1520
ER  -