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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2014 Apr;4(2):739–769. doi: 10.1002/cphy.c130035

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Summary of inferior petrosal sinus (IPS) sampling in the differential diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome. IPS:P is the ratio of plasma ACTH concentration between an inferior petrosal sinus sample and a sample from a peripheral vein (usually the inferior vena cava) drawn simultaneously. Adapted from (77) with permission from John Wiley and Sons.