Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Brown tumor is a rare expansile osteolytic lesions benign bone lesion that arises as a direct result of parathyroid hormone on bony tissue in some patients with hyperparathyroidism. The reported prevalence of the brown tumour is 0.1% Brown tumor as the only and initial symptom of normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism is a rare clinical entity. Here, we present a case with multiple brown tumors in a young normocalcemic woman as a sequele of primary hyperparath...

Introduction: Fahr’s disease, is a rare neurological disorder characterized by abnormal calcified deposits in the basal ganglia with a prevalence of <1/1 000 000Case report: A 15-year-old male presented with focal seizures in right upper and lower limbs that progressed to generalized tonic clonic seizure and status epilepticus. No history of head trauma, central nervous system infection, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, or autoimmune disease No f...

Introduction: Thyroid storm is a rare complication of hyperthyroidism. In pregnant patients can cause spontaneous abortions, fetal demise. Aggressive treatment is needed.Case report: 26 years female 20 weeks pregnant; Graves’ disease for five years, was on carbimazole but she discontinued since she became pregnant Shortly after that, she started to complain with progressive dyspnea at less than ordinary effort, bilateral lower limb swelling, increas...

Introduction: Severe HTG usually occurs in a patient with genetic predisposition encoding various apolipoproteins (APOE, APOA5, APOC2, APOB), lipoprotein lipase (LPL), exacerbated by secondary factors as diabetes, obesity, high alcohol intake Case report: 35 yr old diabetic male presented with repeated vomiting with severe epigastric pain He had similar attack 1 year ago diagnosed as acute pancreatitis. 3 years ago he was diagnosed SLE with antiphospholi...

Background: Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) are rare malignancy with an incidence of 0.7-2 per million population per year. While ~60% of ACC are functional, clinical manifestations of hyper-secretion are seen in only ~40% of the cases. Here, we report a case of ACC with initial presentations of hypokalemia and hypertension mimicking hyperaldosteronismCase report: A 37 year old male complaining of generalized weakness of 2 years duration and fatigue with...