Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary apoplexy presents as a medical emergency, and usually occurs in people with pituitary macroadenomas. Immediate multidisciplinary expertise and timely intervention is needed to mitigate the associated morbidity. There is controversy regarding the role and the timing of neurosurgical intervention versus conservative management approach to obtain best visual and endocrine outcomes. Here we present a case of a man presenting with pituitary apoplexy and mana...

Case history: Two Syrian refugee siblings aged 21 and 20 years, were referred. Ambiguous genitalia had been identified at birth and had been raised as males. They wished a more masculine habitus and had concerns regarding their fertility. The elder sibling had ambiguous genitalia at birth and a 46,XX karyotype. Long-term steroid treatment had been initiated and corrective genital surgery performed at 9 months of age. For unknown reasons, steroids were stopped after 9 years. He...

Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are well recognized, but quite an uncommon group of disorders to cause ectopic Cushing’s syndrome. Pulmonary NETs have also undergone a change in treatment paradigms. We present a 62 year old female with incidentally detected left lower lobe lung nodule with biopsy proven well differentiated NET with ki67 index of 5–10% in 2011. She had a metachronous slow growing left sided renal tumor (hypernephroma), long standing type 2 diabe...