Ectopic ACTH Production and Cushing's Syndrome in a Patient with Parotid Acinic Cell Carcinoma with High-Grade Transformation: Tumor Context and Clinical Implications.

Head and Neck Pathology
Karan SalujaAdel K El-Naggar

Abstract

We report a rare case of Cushing's syndrome in a 59-year-old man who initially presented with concurrent acinic cell carcinoma of the parotid with high-grade transformation and co-existing papillary and medullary thyroid carcinomas, without noticeable cushinoid symptoms. Six-months later, he developed clinical features of Cushing's syndrome which coincided with disease progression in the form of lung metastasis and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. Ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) production and protein expression was limited to the high-grade transformed component of acinic cell carcinoma and in the lymph node metastasis, and was absent in the conventional acinic cell carcinoma as well as in the papillary and medullary thyroid carcinoma. He received adjuvant chemotherapy and supportive management with interval improvement for 8 months followed by disease progression with increasing serum cortisol levels and bone metastasis. He was offered palliative chemotherapy, however, declined further therapy and was lost to follow up. We discussed clinical and pathologic implications of ectopic ACTH production associated with acinic carcinoma and also reviewed the literature of this rare paraneoplastic syndrome.

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