Endocrine Abstracts

Adrenal metastasis is common (35%) among the patients with lung cancer, while less than 3% of the patients develop bilateral adrenal metastasis. Adrenal metastases are generally small and clinically asymptomatic. Adrenal insufficiency is rare despite the presence of adrenal metastasis. Lam et al. reported this ratio as 0.7%. We aimed to present a case with lung cancer and bilateral adrenal metastasis who developed adrenal insufficiency.A 63-year old male...

Adrenal lymphangioma is a rare benign tumors of the adrenal gland. Because of the increased use of imaging methods in recent times, the diagnosis is usually made incidentally. It is usually due to malformation between the lymphatic and the venous system. Those with small indiameters are generally asymptomatic and can be evacuated by needlea spiration. However, surgery is recommended for cysts over 6 cm in diameter due to risk of infection, bleeding, compression of neighboring ...

Non-islet cell tumor hypoglycemia (NICTH) is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome and is the second most common cause of tumor-related hypoglycemia following insulinoma. Its prevalence is not known and is likely that many cases would go undiagnosed. In here, we describe a patient with PNET who presented with severe hypoglycemia.A 37-year-old male with known metastatic Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET) presented with weight loss, sweating, and tremor, epi...

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is one of the most aggressive and lethal human malignancies. The median survival time following diagnosis is typically six months or less. Rapidly growing tumors may cause respiratory failure by compressing trachea. A 71-year-old woman presented with 1-month history of dyspnea, cyanosis and rapidly enlarging neck mass for the past 2 weeks. She had been suffering from multinodular goiter disease. Physical examination revealed a large, fixed an...

Diabetes is an important risk factor for ischemic stroke. Hyperglycemia observed in acute ischemic stroke is accepted as a poor prognostic factor. In the present study, our aim is to investigate the effect of diabetes on the duration and cost of treatment in acute ischemic stroke.Three hundred sixty two acute ischemic stroke patients that were hospitalized in the university neurology clinic in 2015 were retrospectively evaluated. Patients that have diabe...

Diabetes that is an important risk factor for ischemic stroke should also be well-treated in acute ischemic stroke patients for the secondary prevention against the next strokes. In the present study, we investigated the rate of the treatment changes in diabetic acute ischemic stroke patients during their stay at hospital.One hundred twelve acute diabetic ischemic stroke patients that were hospitalized in the university neurology clinic were retrospectiv...

Primary hyperparathyroidism in the most common cause of hypercalcemia. 87% of the cases present with single adenoma, 9% of them have hyperplasia, while multiple adenomas and parathyroid malignancy are detected in 3 and 1% of the cases, respectively. Although it is rare, parathyroid adenomas may be ectopic. The most common locations for ectopic parathyroid adenomas are thymus, tracheaesophageal cleft, carotis sheet, intrathyroidal and paraesophageal area. In this study, we aime...

Acromegaly affects 4–6 people in a million and hypophyseal GH releasing adenoma is the most common cause of the disease. It shows its effects on GH and IGF1. Since they grow rapidly, they are usually diagnosed at the stage of macroadenomas. Heart failure, arthritis, OSAS and DM may develop during course of the disease. Although the most common accompanying malignancy is colon cancer, the incidence of malign melanoma, breast, thyroid, gastric and lung cancers is also incre...

Aim: There are some studies suggesting that the risk of developing cancers,especially thyroid cancer, is increased in the patients with acromegaly. The prevalence of thyroid cancer is 1.2-10.6% among the patients with acromegaly. In this study, we aimed to evaluate clinical and histopathologic characteristics of thyroid cancer among the patients with acromegaly.Method: We retrospectively evaluated the patients with acromegaly who had been followed-up by ...

Hyalinizing trabecular tumor is an uncommon, controversial lesion of thyroid gland. Hyalinizing trabecular neoplasm share similarities with medullary thyroid carcinomas (MTC) and exhibit nuclear features resembling papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). However, the clinical behaviour unclear. We aimed to present a rare case of hyalinizing trabecular tumor of thyroid gland and ten-year follow up. A 54-year-old woman who was being followed up because of multinodular goiter on exami...