Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Neurohypophysis tumors also called pituicytomas are very rare low grade gliomas of the brain that developed in the posterior part of the pituitary gland. Our aim is to report two cases whose diagnosis was made by MRI in the first case and by histology in the second case.Cases reports: Observation No. 1: a woman aged 33 consulted for polyuria and polydypsia due to central diabetes insipidus without pituitary insufficiency. The MRI discovered...

Introduction: Apart from pulmonary and bone localizations, distant metastases from well differentiated thyroid carcinomas are very rare. Among them the adrenal ones are exceptional, and have generally a poor prognosis. The proof of the thyroid origin is not easy except if there is a histological confirmation by a CT guided biopsy of the adrenal tumor as in this observationObservation: A woman aged 56 was referred to our unit for pulmonary metastases of a...