Endocrine Abstracts

The patient had been diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) at age 5 because of precocious of puberty. He had been receiving dexamethazone and fludrocortisone therapy over the course of his life. When he was 16 years old, a scrotal ultrasound had been performed for the evaluation of bilateral testicular pain which revealed multiple sharply marginated, hypoechoic masses throughout both testes. A biopsy of left testis had been reported as ‘Leidig cell tumour&#1...

Objective: Aspergillosis is defined as the infection of the Aspergillus type mold and is commonly seen in hematologic malignancies, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, aplastic anemia, primary immunodeficiency, and immunocompromised patients. Fungal sinusitis in diabetes mellitus is generally presented as rhinoorbitocerebral involvement of mucormycosis. Herein, a fungal sinusitis caused by Aspergillus case presented with headache is reported.<p class...

Background: Paragangliomas (PGLs) and pheochromocytomas (PCCs) arise from chromaffin cells. We evaluated the inflammatory markers. The pan-immune-inflammation value (PIV) has recently been used as a new marker. Therefore, we evaluated the PIV association in patients with PGLs/PCCs.Methods: In the study, the data of 82 patients with PGLs/PCCs who applied between 2005 and 2020 were collected retrospectively from the records. NLR (neutrophil/lymphocyte rati...