Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Adrenal insufficiency is the clinical manifestation of deficient production or action of glucocorticoids, with or without mineralocorticoids deficiency and adrenal androgens. The mortality of untreated adrenal insufficiency reaches up to 80% in 2 years. Moreover, the symptom is non-specific like malaise, dizziness. Therefore, history taking, prompt diagnosis and management are more important. The diagnostic investigation, although well established, can be challengin...

Background: Thyroid carcinoma has increased annually. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common thyroid malignancy and thought to have favourable prognosis. Distant metastases are common in lungs and bones. However, brain metastases are rare and its prognosis is unfavourable. Here we reported a case of solitary brain metastases of PTC mimicking cavernous angioma in a 76-year-old woman patient.Methods: We collected her data retrospectively....