Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Neuroendocrine lesions in the thyroid gland are uncommon. The differential diagnosis usually includes medullary thyroid carcinoma, paraganglioma and metastases. There are few non-conclusive reports of primary neuroendocrine carcinomas of the thyroid.Clinical case: A 49-year-old woman with a past medical history for familial hypercholesterolemia and right oophorectomy for mature teratoma with struma ovarii, was evaluated for a rapidly growin...

Introduction Vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) is a known driver of hepatic inflammation and fibrosis, with elevated levels detected in the circulation in disease. We studied the tissue expression of VAP-1 in midgut NETs and carcinoid heart disease (CHD) alongside circulating soluble VAP-1 (sVAP-1) to determine the role of VAP-1 in NETs.Methods Expression of VAP-1 and inflammatory and stromal markers in midgut NETs tissue, CHD valves and control valves...