Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Cushing’s disease is a rare condition observed in about 8–10% of patients with pituitary tumor. In the majority of cases, corticotroph adenomas are small, intrasellar and less than 10mm in diameter, while macroadenomas occur in 4–10% of the patients. An observation of two clinical cases is reported. The observationCase number 1: a female patient aged 31, hospitalized for suspected Cushing’s dis...

Background: Pituitary metastasis are rare, however, not well-documented. They are usually encountered in elderly patients with disseminated malignant disease. The most frequent are metastases of breast and lung cancer. We herein report a case of an old patient with pituitary metastasis of a mediastinal lymphoma.Case report: A 88-year-old man with a history of treated prostate cancer and primary hypothyroidism presented to our emergency department with he...