Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a very rare thyroid carcinoma with aggressive behavior and poor prognosis. Diagnostic difficulties reside in differentiating SCC from other thyroid malignancies and also in establishing its primary or secondary nature, which are both important for treatment strategy.Case report: A 62-year-old woman, with unremarkable personal and family history, presented in October 2013 with progressive enlargement of a rig...

All the defects of gonad formation during intrauterine development have been grouped under the name of gonadal disgenesias. Disturbances of the whole body appears in gonadal disgenesias, the disruption process of sexualization remaing the major event. In the absence or scarcity oestrogen, progesterone or androgens, hypogonadal sexoidoprive osteoporosis develops.Objectives: Early diagnosis of gonad disgenesias; study of bone mineral metabolism alterations...

Objectives: The premature ovarian failure (the poor ovaries’ syndrome) is characterized by the ovaries inability to normally sexualize, due to a poor sexoidogenetic device (low gonocyte population).Analysis of subjective and objective clinical criteria of patients with premature ovarian failure, early diagnosis of the premature ovarian failure, establish the etiology of premature ovarian through basal and dynamic hormones evaluation, assesment of pr...

Background: Delayed puberty means the absence of secondary sexual characters until the age of 16 or the lack of puberty development until the limit of +2DS regarding the age when the puberty normally begins at considered population. Considering the major ethiological factor implied in delayed puberty, three mechanisms can be distinguished: hypothalamic, hypophyseal and gonadal. Osteoporosis depends mainly on the deficiency of one or of all sexual hormones, arised during the on...