Endocrine Abstracts

A 24 yr old man complaining of visual disturbances for 7 weeks presented with acute severe headache and bitemporal visual field defects. A high density lesion in the pituitary fossa suggestive of pituitary apoplexy was initially observed on a CT scan but an MRI of the pituitary revealed an irregular structure in the suprasellar cistern and the differential diagnoses of a pituitary adenoma or an aneurysm were proposed. Routine haematological and biochemical investigations were ...

A 45-year-old man presented with sudden onset left sided pleuritic chest pain and breathlessness. He was hypotensive and severely hypoxic and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. A chest X-ray was normal and an urgent computerised tomographic (CT) pulmonary angiogram showed the presence of extensive pulmonary emboli. The CT scan also showed bilateral adrenal “incidentalomas” with the right one being 8 cm and the left 6 cm in its longest dimension. He responded we...