Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Myxoid adrenocortical adenoma was described by Brown et al. in 2000 (1). Myxoid adrenal cortical adenoma with pseudo glandular structure is a particular histological variant and is extremely rare. Accurate diagnosis is based on the combined evaluation of clinical features, adrenal imaging, and pathological features. Immunohistochemical studies (cytokeratin, melan-A, USP10, chromogranin, vimentin) can distinguish adrenocortical adenoma from other retroperitoneal m...

Background: Diabetic foot infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality associated with poor glycemic control, polyneuropathy and micro/macrovascular diseases. The clinical, laboratory, radiological, pharmacological and/or surgical evaluation is required. We report a case of diabetic foot infection with bilaterally charcot joint.Case: A 52-year-old female patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HT), coronary artery diseas...

Introduction: Today, approximately 33% of the world population is either overweight or obese. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) results show that, when 20 years and older American adults are examined, it is seen that 33% of them are overweight, 35.7% of them are obese, and 6.3% of them are morbidly obese (1). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a restrictive and malabsorptive combined method and is a complicated operation. Cases of endogenous hyperinsulinemic h...

Introduction: Amyloid goiter is a rare entity caused by massive amyloid infiltration of the thyroid gland. In some cases, differential diagnosis can be challenging. In this report, we present a patient with amyloid goiter caused by secondary amyloidosis.Case: A 48-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of neck swelling, pain, and mild dysphagia that started three weeks after the SARS-Cov-2 infection and continued for one m...

Introduction: Metastasis to the thyroid gland is a rare clinical presentation. The most common sites of primary tumors that metastasize to the thyroid gland are kidney, lung, gastrointestinal system and breast. Primary gynaecological tumors are account for only 3% of secondary thyroid malignancies. Here, we present a case of thyroid metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the cervix.Case: A 54-year-old female was consulted to our clinic with the...

Introduction: Surgical removal of the tumor is the primary treatment modality for insulinomas. However, in some patients, surgery is not possible. Octreotide, a somatostatin analogue, is known to suppress insulin secretion. However, there are little data on the use of octreotide in the treatment of insulinoma. Here, we present an insulinoma patient with severe clinical findings and successful control of hypoglycemia after long-acting octreotide.Case: A 7...

Background: Atypical parathyroid adenoma (APA) is a rare disease that can be challenging to distinguish from benign parathyroid adenoma. APA shows some laboratory and histopathological features with parathyroid cancer. This study attempts to compare clinical, laboratory, radiologic and histopathological characteristics in APA and parathyroid adenoma (PA).Methods: This was a retrospective study was based on the database of eighty-two subjects who underwen...

Introduction: Levofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone group antimicrobial agent widely used in the treatment of community- and hospital-acquired infections. There have been reports of glucose homeostasis abnormality associated with the use of fluoroquinolones including gatifloxacin, levofloxacin and ciprofloxacin. This report presents the case of a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus who developed severe hypoglycemia following oral levofloxacin use.Case: A 7...