Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Here, we present a case of epithelial breast cancer releasing iPTH thereby causing MAH.Case report: A 48-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer was consulted for hypercalcemia. Previous medical record was insignificant except for nephrolitiasis. She had a left mastectomy+left axillary lymph node dissection in another hospital. Prior to surgery no calcium levels were obtained. Pathology revealed infiltrative ductal carcinoma. Postopera...

Aim: In this study, our aim was to investigate frequency of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), undiagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM) and presence of insulin resistance by HOMA.Material and method: Fifty-five primary hyperparathyroid patients without known glucose tolerance were included in this study. The control group was with similar BMI, normocalcemic, without known glucose tolerance. Seventy-five gram oral glucose tolerans test was performed to PHP patie...

Aim: In this study our aim was to evaluate clinical and laboratory findings of our primary hyperparathyroid patients and detect complications caused by hyperparathroidism.Method: Eighty-three patients (73 women, 10 men) were included in this study. Serum calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), parathormone (PTH), 25(OH) D, 24 hour urine Ca and P levels, bone mineral density (BMD) and renal ultrasonography were evaluated.Results: The mean age...

Aim: In this study, we aimed to evaluate thyroid functions, thyroid antibody positivity, thyroid ultrasonography (US) findings and prevalence of thyroid cancer in patients with colon cancer and benign colon polyps. Also, we aimed to compare prevalence of thyroid diseases in two groups.Materials and methods: Fifty-seven patients with colon cancer and 50 patients with colon polyps were included in the study. All patients were evaluated with thyroid US and ...