Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Cancer of thyroid gland is rare in childhood, representing 1% of all pediatric malignancies. Primary thyroid lymphoma (PTL) is even rarer accounting for 5% of thyroid malignancies and 2% of extranodal lymphomas. The disease affects mainly adults in thesixth orseventh decade of life, with a female predominance. Most thyroid lymphomas are non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (nHL) of B-cell origin. The most common type is Diffuse Large B- cell Lymphoma (DLBCL). Patients wit...

Objective: To present the rare case of a patient with cutaneous angiosarcoma, multiple benign skin lesions together with multiple thyroid nodules and to discuss his genetic diagnosis.Case Presentation: A 132/12 years-old boy was referred to the Endocrinology department, following chemotherapy and radiotherapy. His medical history was uneventful until the age of 8 years. His mother reported Graves’ disease and his maternal grandmother papi...