Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Papillary microcarcinoma is a malignant disease of the thyroid measuring less than 1 centimeter at its highest dimension. It has a good prognosis with a small rate of metastasis and giant adenopathies with rapid growth are a rare find.Case report: We present the case of a 75-year-old male patient, who recently underwent surgery for massive laterocervical adenopathy, measuring 50/38.5/48.5 mm in diameters, with rapid growth (in approximately...

Introduction: Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) represents a common extrathyroidal manifestation of Graves’ disease, however 2-7.5% of primary hypothyroid patients can experience a form of TAO as well. This condition is a rare autoimmune disease, where auto-antibodies (anti-TSH receptor antibodies or TRAb) target antigens shared by the thyroid and the orbit. This results in the inflammation, swelling and bulging of the eyes and surrounding orbital tissues. There are...

Introduction: Hungry bone syndrome (HBS) is a rare condition that can appear after surgery for hyperparathyroidism, characterized by hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, low calciuria, especially in patients with severe primary hyperparathyroidism, bone lesions and elevated alkaline phosphatase. We present a case of severe persistent hypocalcemia after resection of a giant parathyroid adenoma in a patient with concurrent osteoblastic bone metastasis from prostate cancer.<p clas...

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A is an autosomal dominant disorder which is characterized by the occurrence of medullary thyroid carcinoma in association with pheochromocytoma and parathyroid tumors.Case report: We present the case of a 64-year-old woman, with familial history of thyroid carcinoma, renal lithiasis and personal history of right nephrectomy for renal lithiasis, who presented for the investigation of a left lateral cervica...

Introduction: Menopausal adrenal tumours may be elements of a complex panel of co-morbidities. Some of these are represented by the presence of a second pathology requiring surgery at the kidney level.Aim: We aim to introduce a series of two cases involving menopausal women who were referred for specific endocrine assays after they had a unilateral nephrectomy (UN).Method: This is a cases series observational study. The patients ga...

Introduction: Menopause correlates endocrine dysfunctions; whether an adrenal incidentaloma represents one of these it is difficult to establish since an age-dependent pattern of incidence has been described. Bone assays are necessary according to years since last menstruation but also if persistent hypercortisolemia is confirmed.Aim: This is a series of cases incidentally found with an adrenal tumor (AT) and osteopenia while evaluation of their menopaus...

IntroductionEndocrinopathies represent about 1–3% of secondary hypertension.The non-head-neck paragangliomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors that arise from the ganglia of the sympathetic nervous system. About 75% are intra-adbdominal, thus they are often mistaken for adrenal pheocromocitoma.They usually secret normetanephrine and chromogranin A, which are responsible of 0.2–0.6% of secondary hypertension.Objective<p c...