Endocrine Abstracts

We describe the case of a 60-year old woman admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for progressively diminishing consciousness and severe lethargy. The patient was recently diagnosed with small cell lung carcinoma with solitary cerebral metastasis. In order to shrink the metastasis-induced cerebral edema she was treated with dexamethasone. She was hospitalized four days before admission to the ICU to start carboplatin-etoposide based chemotherapy. The day of admission she h...