Endocrine Abstracts

67-year-old man re-attended A&E following minor head injury with disproportional symptoms of dizziness on sitting upright, vomiting and neck pain. He is also complaining of nasal blockage for past 1 year with anosmia and occasional yellow rhinorrhoea. On examination he has mild neck tenderness and cranial nerves were intact. Nasopharyncoscopy revealed fullness of posterior nasal space.Head CT was performed revealing extensive soft tissue tumour appea...

A 57-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of worsening headaches and bitemporal hemianopia on visual field examination. MRI of the brain revealed a 3 cm pituitary lesion impinging the optic chiasm and indenting the pons. Appearances of the lesion on imaging and the patient’s normal anterior pituitary hormonal profile were highly suggestive of a non-functioning pituitary adenoma and this was the presumed diagnosis. The patient underwent trans-sphenoidal resection ...