Mis-attribution of ectopic corticotropin-releasing hormone secretion (causing eutopic secondary adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion) to ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion?

Abstract

Editor – In their Lesson-of-the month,[1][1] Kleinig and Russell describe a case of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-dependent Cushing’s syndrome, which they have ascribed to a metastatic small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, presumed to have arisen through de-differentiation of a prostate