Endocrine Abstracts

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: Graves’ disease is an autoimmune thyroid disease presenting with hyperthyroidism. In Graves’ disease, there may be diffuse enlargement in the thyroid gland, as well as nodular appearance. The risk of papillary carcinoma should always be kept in mind while the risk of malignancy is low in Graves’ disease.Case presentation: A 50-year-old woman was admitted to our center for a second-time exacerbation of hyperthyroidism in 2015....

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...