Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Insulinoma is rare tumor with an incidence of 1 in 250,000 patient-years. It presents with repeated episodes of hypoglycemia due to endogenous hyperinsulinemia, which occurs mostly in the fasting state. Insulinomas are usually sporadic, solitary, benign and encapsulated small lesions and majority of them measure <2 cm in diameter. They pose a challenge for pre-operative localization.Materials and methods: A retrospective study of patien...

Introduction: Fanconi anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disease associated with chromosomal instability, it is marked by phenotypic heterogeneity. Patients with FS often exhibit growth retardation due to complex factors such as hypophosphatemia, metabolic acidosis, disturbed vitamin D metabolism. On the other hand, endocrinopathies are a common feature of FA specially such as Growth hormone deficiency (GHD). We report here two cases of Fanconi disease associated to GH defi...