Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pheocrhomocytomas are rare tumors, principally benigns, and with high risk of morbimortality because of secretion of big amountos of catecholamines. They are an unfrequently cause of arterial hypertension in pediatric age but physicians must remember it because they can be diagnosed, treated and cured in a proper way.Objectives: To evalue the cases reports of pediatric pheochromocytoma found in our area, to analyze the differences in diagno...

Gliomas are a common tumor type that affects the glial cells with common features of malignant tumors such as aggressive invasiveness, malignant transformation and vascular proliferation through the central nervous system. Currently, standard therapeutic strategies to treat malignant gliomas are not efficient having alow-rate survival (~12 months). Hence, there is a clear necessity for the identification of novel diagnostic/prognostic tools and therapeutic strategies to m...