Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The aim of the study is to determine whether the guidelines on glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors are being followed in everyday clinical practice and to describe the lifestyle habits and the wellbeing of patients with Type1 or Type 2 diabetes.Patients and methods: A total of 990 patients with diabetes consecutively followed in the Outpatient Diabetes Clinic were studied (60.8% men). Clinical and laboratory parameters and livi...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in Greek patients with type 1 (T1DM) and type 2 (T2DM) diabetes as well as its possible relation to glycemic control and to diabetic complications.Patients and methods: A total of 990 patients (60.7% men) with T1DM or T2DM, consecutively followed in the Outpatient Diabetes Clinic, participated in the study. In every patient anthropometric and biochemical measuremen...

Introduction: Adrenal masses usually represent benign and nonfunctional adrenal adenomas however, primary or metastatic malignancy should also be considered. Discovery of an adrenal mass needs further evaluation in order to exclude malignancy and hormonal secretion. Primary adrenal melanoma is an extremely rare entity, while metastases of cutaneous melanoma to the adrenals occur much more often. We present a rare case of a possibly primary adrenal malignant melanoma with imagi...