Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pheochromocytomas are rare catecholamine-producing neuroendocrine tumors that are usually benign, but which may also present as or develop into a malignancy. Predicting such behavior is notoriously difficult and there are currently no curative treatments for malignant tumors.Case Report: A male patient aged 23 years old who was investigated for headaches, flushing and palpitations. The patient presented with classic clinical features of NF-...

Background: A 17 alpha-hydroxylase deficiency (17OHD) is a rare form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of disorders resulting from defect of one of enzymes necessary for biosynthesis of cortisol.Case Report: A 33-year-old female suffered from 17OHD. She presented with primary amenorrhea, lack of secondary sexual characteristics, and hypertension complicated by ruptured cerebral aneurysm. Laboratory t...

Introduction: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) are any of several autosomal recessive diseases resulting from mutations of genes for enzymes mediating the biochemical steps of production of mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids or sex steroids from cholesterol by the adrenal glands (steroidogenesis).Case Report: We describe a case report of a 20 year-old female with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The 20-year-old female patient was born with geni...

Introduction: Sinonasal neuroendocrine carcinoma SNECs are a rare group of neoplasms that account for only 5% of all sinonasal malignancies. SNECs are categorized by their differentiation grade into well-, moderately- and poorly differentiated.Case report: We describe a classical case of SNEC with secondary orbital involvement in a 34-year-old male patient presented of the occurrence of a right epistaxis. First of all, the patient is smoking. The beginni...