Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas are rare neuroendocrine tumours from catecholamine producing chromaffin tissue of adrenal medulla that typically present with headache, palpitations, diaphoresis, and paroxysmal hypertension. Here we describe a case of pheochromocytoma presenting as haematuria. There are case reports of paraganglioma of urinary bladder with haematuria. In our case no bladder lesion was identified but close follow up is needed for recurrence and bladder involveme...

Introduction: Choriocarcinoma is a rare gynaecological cancer arising from the trophoblastic epithelium of the placenta. HCG induced thyrotoxicosis is a rare but recognised paraneoplastic phenomenon. The association of high BHCG levels and thyrotoxic state is thought to be secondary to similarities in the structure between HCG and pituitary hormones including TSH which share the same alpha unit and enables HCG to activate the TSH receptor at high levels. Kato et al in 2004 rep...