Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Parathyroid carcinoma accounts for <1% of cases of primary hyperparathyroidism. Clinical presentation is usually related to severe hypercalcemia associated to elevated serum PTH (three times above the upper limit). These values are so much higher than in primary hyperparathyroidism due to a benign adenoma. Moreover, 30–75% of patients had a palpable neck mass.Clinical case: Fifty one-year-old male, submitted to bariatric surgery by a...

Acromegaloidism includes clinical features of acromegaly with GH and IGF1 normal levels at baseline and dynamic, without findings of extrapituitary or pituitary tumour. It has been associated with various conditions without a definite pattern. The aim was to evaluate whether there are differences in some hormonal pituitary axis from acromegaloid subjects with respect to acromegalic and healthy subjects. We designed a comparative, multicenter, case–control study in three h...