Weight gain and growth retardation are common clinical characteristics of Cushing's syndrome in children and adolescents. Diagnostic evaluation of such patients with CRH stimulation alone and combined with inferior petrosal sinus sampling and imaging studies is accurate, and therapy is usually successful.
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