Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Ectopic ACTH secretion by pheochromocytoma causing Cushing’s syndrome has been reported rarely. Here, we present a patient with ectopic ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome, caused by a pheochromocytoma with normal fractionated 24 h urinary catecholamines and metanephrines.Case report: A 48-year old female patient admitted to our clinics with the complaints of severe hypertension despite receiving anti hypertensive therapy. Severe he...

Introduction: True risk evaluation is important in the management of thyroid cancer. We aimed to evaluate patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) according to the different staging systems.Method: Data of patients diagnosed with DTC between 2007 and 2014 at our institution were analysed retrospectively. TNM, MACIS, EORTC, AMES, De Groot, ETA, LATS, and ATA staging systems were applied to patients according to their original description. In ATA ...