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Arthur Carleton Crooke
British endocrinologist and pathologist,
born May 9, 1905, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire; died 1990.
Associated eponyms:
Crooke's cells
Hyalinated, basophilic cells in the pituitary body found in Cushing’s syndrome, but also in exogenic administration of cortisol.
Cushing's syndrome I
Glucocorticoid excess syndrome in which the hypersecretion of glucocorticoids is secondary to hypersecretion of adrenocorticotrophic hormone from the pituitary.
Biography:
Arthur Carleton Crooke was consultant endocronologist at the Women's Hospital in Birmingham, England.
We thank Christopher Crooke (son of) and Hanspeter Witschi, MD for information used.
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