Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Tuberculosis is an insidious disease and may be diagnosed after it afected many organs.Case presentation: We present the case of a 56 years old female, who followed antituberculosis treatment in 2003 for pulmonary tuberculosis and during the treatment developed acute renal failure and for this reason the treatment was stopped. During the evaluations a left kidney tumor was detected. Left nephrectomy was performed in 2003 (HP examination &#1...

Introduction: Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of pHPT – <1%.Case report: We report the case of a 25-year-old man who presented with acute severe hypercalcemia (19 mg/dl) and extremely high serum PTH (2737 pg/ml). He was initially treated with i.v. fluids, calcitonin and pamidronate and total calcium decreased to 12.7 mg/dl. A left lower parathyroidectomy (tumour with microvascular invasion and intact capsule) was performed with a prompt de...

Introduction: Thyroid cancer in childhood and adolescence represents 1.5–3% of all carcinomas in this group of age. Our purpose is to define clinical and pathological features, therapeutical complications and follow-up characteristics and survival of a group of children and adolescents with thyroid carcinomas.Design: We report a retrospective study of 26 children and adolescents with thyroid carcinoma who were investigated in our institution from Ja...