Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a very rare tumor. The mean age at onset is between 40 and 50 years. Patients with nonfunctioning ACC report symptoms of abdominal discomfort or back pain due to the large tumor size. Surgery for ACC should be performed by an expert surgeon.Case: A 29-year-old patient with 25 weeks of pregnancy admitted at our clinic with right side pain. 10×11 cm solid mass on right adrenal gland was detected by ultra...

Introduction: Ganglioneuroma is an extremely rarely seen tumour in the adrenal gland, which originates from neural crest cells. Clinically, they generally have a silent course and in laboratory tests, the hormone levels expressed from the adrenal gland are within the normal range.Case: A 46-year old male patient, for whom a mass in the adrenal gland was diagnosed incidentally on abdominal ultrasonography and MRI. The physical examination, laboratory test...

Introduction and purpose: More than 90% of differentiated thyroid cancers are papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). Lymph node metastasis is common in PTC and has been reported to have no effect on prognosis. The risk of cervical metastasis is high in the presence of clinicopathologic factors including extrathyroidal extension, multifocality and lymphovascular invasion. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the clinicopathological features of lymph node metastasis development....

Introduction: Oncocytic tumor of adrenal gland was defined as a neoplasm composed exclusively or predominantly of oncocytes which are large and polygonal cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm because of abnormal accumulation of mithochondria. Oncocytic neoplasms of the adrenal cortex are extremely rare and are usually non-functioning, benign and incidentally detected.Case: A 40-year old male patient, for whom a large mass in the adrenal gland was diagnosed i...

Introduction: Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is a peptide-based hormone that controls the level of ionized calcium in blood and extracellular fluids. Hemostasis is regulated by the balance between natural stimulants and inhibitors on platelet functions. Disruption of the balance between inhibitor and stimulants leads to thrombosis or bleeding. There are studies on the association of hyperparathyroidism with thrombotic disease. Thromboelastography is a method of evaluating the whole...