Endocrine Abstracts

A 41-year-old lady presented with a long history of very severe premenstrual dysphoria, commencing 2 weeks prior menstruation. Her symptoms included behavioural problems and in particular aggression, impaired memory, palpitation, bloating and diarrhoea. She also experience cyclical left head and left eye pain without visual symptoms. She was para 3+0 with a past medical history of polycystic ovary syndrome, eventually treated by ovarian diathermy. During pregnancy her symptoms...

Background: The incidental adrenal lesion, coined ‘incidentaloma’, is a common radiological finding, necessary of further investigation and diagnosisAims: This is a retrospective observational study which aims to identify the prevalence of incidentaloma in CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis in the Brighton & Sussex University Hospital’s Trust. Our additional objective is to assess the adequacy of incidentaloma management throu...

A 60-year-old woman presented with 2 months of aching limbs and 2 weeks of nausea and a left sided neck mass. She was clinically euthyroid with a 5 cm non-tender left thyroid nodule. There was no cervical lymphadenopathy and the remainder of the examination was unremarkable. There was no family history of any endocrine disorder.Investigations showed serum TSH concentration 5.94 μ/l and serum free T4 concentration 12 pmol/l. Thyroid peroxi...