ICD-11 classes
05 Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
Endocrine diseases
Disorders of the adrenal glands or adrenal hormone system
5A70 — Cushing syndrome
5A70.2 — Pseudo-Cushing syndrome

ICD-11 5A70.2 — Pseudo-Cushing syndrome

This is a condition in which patients display the signs, symptoms, and abnormal hormone levels seen in Cushing's syndrome. However, pseudo-Cushing's syndrome is not caused by a problem with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis as Cushing's is; it is an idiopathic condition.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.