Endocrine Abstracts

Riedel thyroiditis (RT) is a rare kind of chronic thyroiditis which may be a part of a multifocal systemic fibrosis syndrome. When it is generally accepted as a thyroid manifestation of IgG4 related systemic disease. We hereby present a 54 year old woman who was suffering from shortness of breath because of a mass lesion originating from thyroid and invading neck and upper mediastinal structures, leading to dyspnea and dysphagia, as shown by CT, 15 years ago. After an isthmect...

Background: and ObjectiveThyroid collision tumors are extremely rare, accounting for just around 1% of all thyroid carcinomas. The objective of this study is to enhance our understanding of the clinical characteristics of these infrequently reported occurrences. In our study, we evaluated the clinical features of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) that existed synchronously with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).Methods: We performed a retrospective anal...

Objectives: Pituitary gland is an uncommon site for metastasis of malignant tumors. Breast and lung are the most common cancer sites. Most pituitary metastases are asymptomatic, with only 7% symptomatic and central diabetes insipidus is the most common symptom.Case presentation: A 54 year-old woman presented with nause, emesis and diplopia to emergency department. Her relatives stated that she had poliuria, nocturia, polidipsia for three months. Her hist...

Introduction: It is known that patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) have an increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In our study, we aimed to investigate the cardiovascular risk factors in medically observed and operated PHPT patients.Materials and methods: Twenty-nine medically observed (group A), 25 pre-operative (group B) and 23 post-operative (group C) patients with PHPT and 26 normocalcemic patients as control group (group D) w...

Introduction: Minimally invasive surgery is an alternative surgical approach for primary hyperparathyroidism with less surgical trauma and anesthesia complications. Neck ultrasonography and scintigraphy are still the first step tools for localisating parathyroid lesions. Intact parathyroid hormone (PH) determination in washout samples is really very useful when parathyroid lesions can not be easily distinguished from thyroid lesions or sometimes lymph nodes.<p class="abste...

Introduction: Disease control in acromegaly can be achieved by surgery, medical treatment, and radiotherapy either alone or in combination. The acromegaly patients whom tumour shrinkage cannot be provided or growth hormone levels do not decrease under multiple treatment modalities are designated as resistant acromegaly. We aimed in our study to evaluate the clinical features of resistant acromegaly patients and determine their responds to different treatment modalities.<p ...