Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Adrenal metastases used to be rare in endocrinology compared to others adrenal tumours, and deemed to have a dire prognosis. Our aim is to analyze 13 cases in order to study their morphological aspects, their causes, and their outcome.Subjects and method: Thirteen cases were studied over a long period of time (2000–2012). All of them had biological, hormonal, and radiological assessments.Results: We had ten men a...

Introduction: Adrenal metastases due to thyroid cancers deemed to very rare as adrenal glands are not a common site of metastases from thyroid cancer. When the phenomenon occurs the prognosis is very poor as adrenal metastases usually do not fix radioactive iodine. Our aim is to report three cases.Case reports: No. 1: a woman aged 57 harbouring anaplastic thyroid cancer classified T4, N1, M0, consulted for back pain, severe fatigue and skin pigmentation....