Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Lymphocytic hypophysitis is an uncommon autoimmune disease usually presenting during or just after pregnancy. It may be followed by panhypopituitarism. In such case is extremely rare for a woman to have a normal delivery again.Case report: We report the case of a 28-year-old woman who had a successful delivery 2 years after lymphocytic hypophysitis which had resulted in panhypopituitarism. The young woman presented with amenorrhea, symptoms...

Case report: We present the case of a patient with somatotroph adenoma combined with neuronal choristoma Pituitary Adenoma Neuronal CHoristoma (PANCH). A female patient, 44 years of age, manifested with acromegaly type features since 1993, while mentioning also headaches, amenorrhea, and peripheral type visual disturbances since 1997. The clinical examination revealed an obese woman with typical acromegalic features. The laboratory evaluation before pituitary surgery showed a ...

Introduction: Primary malignant thyroid teratoma is a rare neoplasm. Even rarer is the concomitance of the mentioned tumor and papillary thyroid cancer.Case report: We report a case of a 44-year old woman diagnosed with Hasimoto thyroiditis and multinodular, non-toxic goiter since 2004. The two larger, initially non palpable nodules were located in right thyroid lobe, 16 and 12 mm in diameter respectively. Under suppressive thyroxine therapy the diameter...

Background: The prevalence of incidentally discovered adrenal masses has increased during last decades, due to longer life expectancy and to the extended use of new imaging techniques like high definition C/T and MRI. Diagnostic approach and possible therapeutic management are considered nowadays fascinating challenges for clinical practice, not only for the probability of hormonal hypersecretion but also for the risc of malignancy.Methods: We investigat...