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Cushing’s syndrome caused by short-term topical glucocorticoid use for erythrodermic psoriasis and development of adrenal insufficiency after glucocorticoid withdrawal Volume 19, numéro 2, March-April 2009

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Department of Dermatology, Ministry of Health Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

Auteur(s) : Selda Pelin Kartal Durmazlar, Bilgen Oktay, Cemile Eren, Fatma Eskioglu Department of Dermatology, Ministry of Health Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey A 28-year-old woman presented with generalized erythroderma and clear signs of Cushing’s syndrome (figure 1A). She had been well until two months previously when she developed generalized erythrodermic psoriasis, for which she was prescribed oral 50 mg/day acitretin and [...]