Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Cystic adrenal incidentalomas are relatively rare. Large cystic pheochromocytomas are extremely rare and there are few reports of them being clinically silent.Case presentation: We report the case of a 57-years-old man, who was admitted to our clinic for evaluation of a large cystic lesion that was found ultrasonographicaly in a typical check-up. We ordered a CT that revealed a giant right adrenal cyst (91.3×96.8×92.1 mm) with thi...

Introduction: Thyreotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is a very rare complication of hyperthyroidism in Caucasians. Furthermore there have been reported only a few cases that paralysis was induced by corticosteroids in patients with TPP.Case presentation: We report the case of a 35-years-old Greek sailorman who had a spider bite in his right hand during a trip in Mexico. He was admitted to local hospital due to the significant swelling of his arm, where he ...

Introduction: Lymphocytic hypophysitis is an uncommon autoimmune disease usually presenting during or just after pregnancy. It may be followed by panhypopituitarism. In such case is extremely rare for a woman to have a normal delivery again.Case report: We report the case of a 28-year-old woman who had a successful delivery 2 years after lymphocytic hypophysitis which had resulted in panhypopituitarism. The young woman presented with amenorrhea, symptoms...

Case report: We present the case of a patient with somatotroph adenoma combined with neuronal choristoma Pituitary Adenoma Neuronal CHoristoma (PANCH). A female patient, 44 years of age, manifested with acromegaly type features since 1993, while mentioning also headaches, amenorrhea, and peripheral type visual disturbances since 1997. The clinical examination revealed an obese woman with typical acromegalic features. The laboratory evaluation before pituitary surgery showed a ...

Introduction: Primary malignant thyroid teratoma is a rare neoplasm. Even rarer is the concomitance of the mentioned tumor and papillary thyroid cancer.Case report: We report a case of a 44-year old woman diagnosed with Hasimoto thyroiditis and multinodular, non-toxic goiter since 2004. The two larger, initially non palpable nodules were located in right thyroid lobe, 16 and 12 mm in diameter respectively. Under suppressive thyroxine therapy the diameter...