Endocrine Abstracts

The commonest site of metastasis from papillary carcinoma is regional lymph nodes. Distant metastases are rare, most presenting synchronously. Brain metastases in papillary carcinoma are rare, reported with a frequency of 0.1–5% and cavernous sinus metastasis is extremely rare.Case report: A 62-year-old woman presented with a history of non-secretory pituitary macroadenoma present with symptoms of hypopituitarism. MRI of the brain revealed a 4.5&#21...

Introduction: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and Graves’ disease (GD) are two auto-immune diseases. They have different phenotypes and are generally believed to share a number of common etiological factors but the mechanisms leading to their dichotomy are unknown. An unusual outcome of HT is the conversion to GD.A mechanism that might be hypothesized to account for the change from HT to GD is the alteration in the biological activity of TSH recep...

Introduction: Cushing’s syndrome is rare but severe because of his association with multiple complications and particularly increased cardiovascular factors. This complications determine a mortality rate four times higher than in general population.Objects: The aim of our study was to evalated the prevalence of cardiovascular factors in Cushing’ syndrome.Subjects and methods: Twenty-five patients with Cushing’ syndro...

Thyroglossal ductal cyst is the most common congenital cervical pathology. Abnormalities in the embryologic development and migration of the thyroid gland can result in this ectopic thyroid tissue, which may occur in the midline in any position from the base of the tongue to the mediastinum. They are rarely seen in adults. Malignant transformation of the cyst is quite rare and is encountered mostly in adults.We retrospectively reviewed two cases of thyro...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most frequent endocrinopathy in premenopausal women, and has many clinical features in common with the metabolic syndrome.Objective: The aim of our study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics of our PCOS women.Methods: Of 181 PCOS defined by the Rotterdam criteria and 90 controls were evaluated for anthropometric parameters by physical examination.Results: The PC...

Introduction: Dramatically with increased use of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), more and more uncommon adrenal masses have been detected at abdominal examinations. Adrenal cavernous hemangiomas (ACH) are rare vascular tumor. The first case report was published in 195 by Johnson and Jeppesen. Approximately less than 70 cases were reported in the literature to date.ACH are nonfunctioning benign tumors that is often discovere...

Introduction: Cystic adrenal lesions (CAL) are a rare diseases representing 5.4–6.0% of all pathological changes affecting adrenal glands. In about one-third of the cases, lesions are detected incidentally; in the remaining two-thirds cysts lesions are symptomatic, which is typically related to their large size or rapid growth. Although CAL are usually benign, since malignancy is reported in up to 7% of all CAL. Management algorithms for CAL vary and are controversial bec...

Adrenal tuberculosis was first described by Thomas Addison in 1855, Isolated adrenal tuberculosis is rare and between represents 1–2% of the aetiologies of adrenal masses called expired incidentalomas. We report the case of a related Addison’s disease is a progressive adrenal tuberculosis which could benefit from exploration and a tomography monitoring on anti tuberculosis treatment. Patient aged 35 years presented himself to medical emergency with clinical surgical ...

Tuberculosis of the thyroid gland occurs rarely, and should be considered in the diagnosis of nodular lesion of the thyroid gland. We report the case of a 44-year-old woman admitted for therapeutic management of a suspected goiter appeared at 2 months of hospitalisation and quickly increasing in volume in a few days, she had a goiter clinically type 2, firm, homogeneous, without palpable nodules in it, hardly moving with swallowing movements with slight dysphagia without signs...

The most common cause of hyperthyroidism in young patients is Graves’ disease (GD). It is an auto immune disorder caused by TSH-receptor-stimulating auto antibodies.Treatment options for GD include anti-thyroid drugs (ATD), radioactive iodine (RAI), and surgery. The treatment modalities used vary in different parts of the world.Objectives: To compare the effect of different treatment and to determine the profile of patients wh...