Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hyperthyroidism and thyrotoxicosis can have multiple etiologies, varying from the most frequent described in clinical practice (Graves disease, toxic nodular goiter, thyroiditis) to very rare causes such as anaplastic thyroid cancer, thyroid lymphoma, amyloidosis or even secondary malignancy of the thyroid gland.Case report: A 53 year old man presented to our department for progressive goiter enlargement in the last two months which was acc...

Primary vaginal malignancy is uncommon, accounting for about 2% of all gynecological tract cancers, with small-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the vagina being exceptionally rare and aggressive. They display similar histological and immunohistochemical features to small-cell carcinomas of different origin. Few cases are reported in the literature so far and therefore, there is no current treatment protocol consensus. We report the case of a 34-year-old nulliparous patient, wh...

Introduction: Acromegaly is a rare endocrine disease characterised by excess GH produced by a pituitary adenoma. It is associated with several complications and comorbidities. Metabolic alterations such as diabetes and dyslipidemia are quite frequent described in these patients.Materials and methods: This is a retrospective observational cross-sectional study meant to assess the metabolic modifications in a group of acromegaly patients evaluated in our d...