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The nurse is assessing a client who is on long term glucocorticoid therapy. Which of the following findings would the nurse expect?

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Rationale: Buffalo hump. With high doses of glucocorticoid, iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome develops. The exaggerated physiological action causes abnormal fat distribution which results in a moon-shaped face, an intrascapular pad on the neck (buffalo hump) and truncal obesity with slender limbs.

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