Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The gold-standard therapeutic approach for benign insulinoma is surgery. If surgery is not feasible, minimally invasive ablative procedures by interventional radiology can lead to partial or complete remission of hormone hypersecretion and tumour control.Summary: 72-year-old woman, admitted with recurrent hypoglycaemia with whipple triad symptoms and presyncopal attacks for 5 weeks, relieved by eating carbohy...

Background: In our Hospital, we have noticed a large number of thyroid profile are being requested without any clinical suspicion, which has led to difficulty in interpretation of the results, dilemmas in subsequent management and an increment of inpatient Endocrine referrals.Objective and Aim: To evaluate our local practice in ordering thyroid function tests and to identify strategies to reduce unnecessary testing and i...