Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary stalk lesions fall into three categories: congenital and developmental (rathke cleft cyst, ectopic neurohypophysis), inflammatory and infectious (hypophysitis, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis), and neoplastic (Langerhans cell histiocytosis, germinoma, metastatic tumors). Herein, we report a case with infundibular lesion presenting with central diabetes insipidus and hypogonadism.Case report: A 27-years old woman was admitted to our clin...

Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder, characterized by hyperandrogenism and chronic anovulation. Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance are well-documented features of the disease. In obese PCOS patients, family history of type 2 diabetes mellitus (FH-DM) is shown to be related with a decrease in insulin sensitivity, however not much is known about lean PCOS cases. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between FH-DM and ...

Introduction: RET mutation analysis has a critical importance for determining clinical approach to hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). The current guidelines recommends to determine the timing of prophylactic thyroidectomy depending on the risk stratification, mainly decided by the type of the mutation.Methods: Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Turkey (SEMT) sponsored ret genetic screening between July 2008 and January 2012 in 513 pati...