Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology

ea0090ep1035 | Thyroid | ECE2023

Graves’ Disease Hiding Metastatic Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma - case report-

Musat Madalina , Septar AIlin , Boanta Roxana , Goldstein Andrei , Terzea Dana , Ioachim Dumitru , Schipor Sorina , Muresan Andrei , Niculescu Dan , Elian Viviana

The coexistence of Graves disease (GD) and thyroid carcinoma used to be considered uncommon, but association between the two is being progressively acknowledged. Case report: We present the case of a 69-year-old woman with a 10 year history of GD who was referred to our clinic for fatigue, sweating, palpable cervical mass and weight loss. She was treated only in the previous 5 months with block and replace therapy. Laboratory workup at admission showed s...

ea0081ep985 | Thyroid | ECE2022

An unusual association between medullary thyroid carcinoma and testicular seminoma: Chemotherapy-induced complications, genetic predisposition or random relationship?

Septar AIlin , Smarandache Romeo , Niculescu Dan Alexandru , Goldstein Andrei , Braha Elena , Muresan Andrei , Caragheorgheopol Andra , Terzea Dana , Constantin Teodor , Buduluca Larisa , Musat Madalina

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare malignancy arising from parafollicular C cells of the thyroid gland, sometimes due to germline mutations in the RET protooncogene. Testicular cancer is the most common malignancy in men aged 15 - 40 years with survival rates improved by the introduction of cisplatin therapy in the late 1970s. Nonetheless, platinum-based chemotherapy was shown to increase the risk of a solid second cancer with substantially increased site-specific ris...