Endocrine Abstracts

A 57-year-old female patient was admitted for evaluation of multiple focal liver lesions diagnosed with abdominal ultrasound and CT. Her medical history included severe rheumatoid arthritis and pernicious anaemia treated with vitamin B12. Gastroscopic examination revealed numerous small polypoid lesions within the stomach, and histology of tissue samples obtained by biopsy showed carcinoid associated with atrophic gastritis. Although the patient had no symptoms of carcinoid sy...

Introduction: Peritoneal implantation of benign pheochromocytomas – also known as pheochromocytomatosis – is a rare event caused by tumour rupture during surgical intervention. In our tertiary referral centre, we managed over two hundred patients with adrenal pheochromocytoma in the past 27 years. Now we report on the two cases diagnosed and followed with pheochromocytomatosis.Case 1: A 33-year-old man presenting with paroxysmal hypertension ...

Introduction: Clinicopathological characterisation ofneuroendocrine neoplasms could provide improved prognostic information even at the time of the diagnosis.Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the clinicopathological features of a large cohort of patients with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs).Patients and methods: The study included 210 patients (95 men and 115 women) with histologically confirmed and verified neu...