Endocrine Abstracts

Two female patients, A – 61-year-old, B – 68-year-old, were admitted to hospital with symptoms of hypercortisolemia. Both of them were diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumor (NET), patient A with pancreatic NET G3 (Ki67 – 30%), and patient B with a disease with a probable primary origin in lungs - NET G2 (Ki67 - 15%). Both women had metastases to the liver. While laboratory results were similar in both cases (high level of cortisol – up to 1750 nmol/l and ...

An increasing prevalence of incidental adrenal lesions (adrenal incidentalomas) has been reported in recent years. It is now estimated that adrenal incidentalomas can be found in about 4% of the general population by CT and in up to 10-15% at autopsy. Patients with neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) (including mainly GEP-NETs and pulmonary carcinoids) are expected to have an even higher prevalence of adrenal incidentalomas because of the known genetic preponderance in a subgroup of...