[Problems in the diagnosis of Addison's disease in the absence of hyperpigmentation]

Abstract

At the example of a 62-year-old female patient with a "white" Addison as a sequela of a bilateral tuberculosis of the adrenal glands the problems of the diagnostics of this clinical picture are described. It is referred to the necessity of thinking of an existing chronic primary insufficiency of the adrenal cortex, also when there is no hyperpigmentation which otherwise serves as principle sign.