Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Due to the frequent occurrence of adrenal incidentalomas, diagnosis of their hormonal activity is a significant clinical concern. Approximately 7-10% of adrenal tumors are pheochromocytomas, which even in silent form can lead to hemodynamic instability during surgery. According to the ESE and ENSAT guidelines in any case of adrenal tumors greater than 1 cm pheochromocytoma should be excluded based on plasma metanephrines level and urinary metanephrines excretion....

Introduction: 2-[18F]FDG PET/CT, commonly used for neoplastic lesions detection, also allows assessment of the severity of the inflammatory processes. Moreover, glucose uptake in spleen and bone marrow may be a useful biomarker of systemic inflammation. Patients with Cushing syndrome demonstrate many metabolic changes involving muscles and fat tissue. Some mechanisms are known, but their relationship to glucose metabolism is not well investigated. Our study aimed to correlate ...