Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a proliferative disease that origins from dentritic cell family. LCH most commonly affects bones and skin, but it can also involve the other systems and organs. Lytic bone lesions are the most common findings in LCH, LCH can involve any bone; the most common sites are skull and femur. In rare case, lytic osseous lesions occur in the spine. Diabetes insipidus (DI) is the most frequent endocrine abnormality associated with LCH...

Objective: Migraine is a common primary headache disorder that affects 12-15% of the general population. Also, vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem. A few studies have shown relationship between serum vitamin D levels and headache. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference in serum levels of 25-Hdroxy vitamin d [25(OH)D] between migraine patients and healthy controls and also to determine the relationship of vitamin D deficiency with frequency and seve...

Introduction: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is a subtype of thyroid carcinomas with an aggressive form. Anaplastic thyroid carcinomas are thought to develop as a result of differentiation of well-differentiated thyroid cancers. Anaplastic transformation of well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma is very rare and most commonly occurs in thyroid gland and regional lymph nodes, whereas occurrence at distant metastatic site is extremely rare. Here we report the case of a pa...