Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Parathyroid carcinoma is a very rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism. We aimed to present a case of middle-aged man, who was initially misdiagnosed as parathyroid adenoma, with parathyroid carcinoma and severe bone deformities associated with hyperparathyroidism.Case: A 36-years old male presented with leg aches and severe hypercalcemia in 2001, when he was diagnosed with primary hyperparathyroidism (corrected serum calcium 18.5 mg/dL (8...

Introduction: Certain sensory system functions are affected somehow in acromegaly, however auditory complications have not been identified in detail yet. It is possible that widespread changes in acromegaly may also affect auditory system. We aimed to determine the changes involving auditory system in cases with acromegaly.Methods/design: Otological examination of 41 cases with acromegaly (active n=22, inactive n=19) were compared with ...

Kidney disease occurs in diabetic patients during disease course in time. Diabetes duration, co-morbid diseases, presence of retinopathy, family history of diabetic nephropathy (DN) predict kidney involvement. Although DN is the initial diagnosis in diabetics with proteinuria, other diseases like primary glomerulonephritis (GN) could be the reason of kidney involvement. DN is increasing in proportion with the increase in diabetes prevalence, and it has been predicted to contin...

A 45-year-old female patient with diagnosis of hypertension was admitted to Acibadem University Hospital for colonoscopy due to perianal abscess and rectovaginal fistula. She had been diagnosed with hypertension for 7 years and had been using 3 different classes of antihypertensive drugs. Intermittent hypertensive attacks and hospitalization for myocarditis history was documented. During anesthesia induction for colonoscopy her condition acutely worsened and she became hemodyn...

Objective: Distant metastases from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are relatively rare and may be associated with a poor prognosis. Herein, we describe a case report with adrenal and lung metastasis of follicular variant of PTC in the context of the review of the literature.Case Report: A 52-year-old male presented with complaints of swelling of his neck and cough. He had been diagnosed with multinodular goiter, obesity, pre-diabetes, and hypogonadism....

Aim: Thyroid nodules are frequent in the adult population. Thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy is the first choice for diagnosing cancer in the nodule. It is suggested that biopsy-proven benign thyroid nodules should be followed up clinically and if they grow, re-biopsy should be performed. However, certain growth criteria have not been defined yet.Method: We retrospectively reviewed thyroid fine needle aspiration records of all patients seen in our cl...