Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Intravenous bisphosphonates treatment brings real benefits to patients with bone metastases. Unfortunately, this treatment sometimes has a difficult to treat complication, often disabling for the patients – the osteonecrosis of the jaws. A new approach in the management of this complication is the use of platelet rich plasma (PRP).Patients and methods: Five patients aged between 62 and 72 years old (three men and two women) were included...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is a slow growing tumor and is reputed to have an excellent prognosis. In 10–20% of cases, the presence of lymph node metastases led to diagnosis.Objective: To present a patient with enlarged lateral cervical masses, present for 10 years, that proved to be lymph nodes with metastatic thyroid papillary carcinoma.Case report: We report a case of an 26-year-old female patient with 10 years evolution of...

Introduction: Hyperparathyroidism-Jaw Tumor (HPT-JT) syndrome is a rare genetic disorder bearing a germline and a somatic CDC73 mutation. The features of HPT-JT are clinically difficult to ascertain because the parathyroid disease, ossifying fibroma in the jaw and other abnormalities, often occurs asynchronously and may be diagnosed and treated separately. The association of jaw ossifying fibroma with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) is typical of HPT-JT.<p class="abstex...