Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Besides medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), increased calcitonin serum concentrations may be due, rarely, to neuroendocrine tumour (NET) ectopic secretion, especially those of the foregut (pancreatic/lung). Patients with NETs and right-sided heart failure due to cardiac carcinoid have a worse prognosis than those presenting without. Case presentation: We present the case of a 72-year-old female with a history of an initially considered well-...

We present a rare association of ovarian carcinoid and virilization. A 65-year-old woman presented with a 9 years history of obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, stable angina, evaluated ambulatory for a postmenopausal virilization syndrome and flushes, with high testosterone and 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17OHP) levels without suppression during the 2×2 mg DXM test, normal gynecological evaluations with no tumor formation involving uterus, ovaries and adrenals at the pelvic...