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Adrenal hemorrhage complicating ACTH therapy in Crohn's disease
1Department of Radiology, Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032.
Pediatric Radiology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Huge dose ACTH therapy is used in some severely ill patients with inflammatory bowel disease. We report a teenage girl with Crohn's disease who developed an acute abdomen following ACTH therapy. CT revealed the mass to be a hemorrhagic adrenal gland; the opposite adrenal gland was hypertrophied but without signs of hemorrhage.