Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pheochromocytoma occasionally associates with pathological lesions of the adrenal cortex. We report a case of non-functional adrenocortical nodular hyperplasia with a concomitant pheochromocytoma in the controlateral adrenal and empty sella.Case report: We describe the case of a 52 year old women with a history of essential hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus. She complained of: nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation. The c...

Introduction: Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is characterized by cervical pain. Rarely, other thyroid diseases, like Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT), may be associated with cervical pain, leading to confusions with SAT. We report a particular case of painful goitre.Case report: D Maria, 50 years old, presented with cervical pain, low grade fever, inflammatory syndrome (ESR=132 mm/1 h), and was diagnosed with SAT. Thyroid function was normal. Ultrasound (US...

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare tumoral entity related to parafollicular C cells of the thyroid gland, characterized by peculiar morphological, functional and evolutional features. The aim of this study was to characterize the cases of medullary carcinoma diagnosed in a university hospital in a 5 years interval (January 1999–December 2003) and to evaluate the diagnostic methods. In this time interval, from a total of 171 thyroid malignancy, 12 (7%) were medull...