TY - JOUR AU - Büyükakyüz, Nilgün AU - Hillinger, Sven AU - Weder, Walter AU - Jungraithmayr, Wolfgang PY - 2017 TI - Bronchopulmonary carcinoid with a single lymph node metastasis causing ectopic Cushing’s syndrome JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 9, No 3 (March 28, 2017): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2017 KW - N2 - Bronchial carcinoid tumors (BCTs) represent a subgroup of bronchopulmonary neuroendocrine tumors which have the ability to produce neuropeptides. Merely 2% of BCTs secrete ACTH and less than 1% of patients with Cushing’s syndrome (CS) have a BCT. Typical BCTs rarely metastasize. We here present a patient with ectopic CS caused by a typical BCT, which metastasized into a lymph node. This case suggests that the diagnostic work up of CS should be wide and include ectopic ACTH-secreting BCT, and that ACTH secretion can be correlated to a more aggressive type of typical BCTs. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/12420