Endocrine Abstracts

Cancer metastases on pituitary gland are seen rarely. A 71-year-old male was admitted to Endocrinology Department with polydipsia, polyuria, and diplopia. Urine volume was ~5 l/day. In medical history; he had been diagnosed as having non-small cell lung carcinoma with multiple liver and bone metastases 1 year ago. He took chemotherapies with four cycles of paclitaxel, carboplatin, and zoledronic acid for bone metastases and radiation therapy (RT) was given to L4-S1 vertebras. ...

The pathologist cannot easily decide some thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) into the benign, suspicious, or malignity and this condition are reported as ‘atypia of undetermined significance’ (AUS) or ‘follicular lesion of undetermined significance’ in the Bethesda system. Diagnosis of AUS of a thyroid nodule is leaved an endocrinologist as well as the patients in a difficult situation. However, the risk of malignancy at AUS is ~5–15%. Our aim...

Introduction: Myxedema coma is very rare and its mortality is quite high. It is even rarer to occur due to an immune checkpoint inhibitor.Case: A 69-year-old patient presented with complaints of dyspnea, fatigue, edema, and hypotension. He had diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and metastatic lung cancer diagnosis. Three weeks ago, he had taken the 10th cycle of atezolizumab for lung cancer, which he had been taking for 7 months. The patient’s body te...