Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Hypercalcemia of malignancy usually appears in patients with osteolytic metastasis and in those patients with humoral hypercalcemia due to secretion of PTHrp by the tumor. Hypercalcemia due to calcitriol production by the tumor is uncommon (<1% of cases of hypercalcemia of malignancy). It is the cause of virtually all cases of hypercalcemia in patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and approximately one third of cases in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. It has als...

Introduction: The differential diagnosis of cystic cervical masses includes thyroid cyst, thymic cyst, thyroglossal duct cyst, branchial cleft cyst, bronchogenic cyst, lymphangioma and parathyroid cyst (PC). PC is one of the less common causes of the cervical masses.Methods: We report the case of a 37-year-old man admitted to the hospital with a neck mass of 48 mm.Results: Our patient presented with neck pain and an hipoechogenic n...

Objectives: The prevalence of diabetic patients admitted in hospitals close to 20% in some series. Our goal is to determine the prevalence of diabetic patients assessed by interclinical calls from different medical and surgical specialties that have been entered during 2015 in our Hospital, in order to describe the characteristics that these diabetic patients.Material and methods: We present 116 patients evaluated by interclinical consultation request fo...

Growth hormone (GH) is involved in body growth and metabolism. This hormone is used for the treatment of various clinical conditions and is administrated subcutaneously once daily or 3 times a week. The chronic use of GH has side effects; among them, the increase in tumor incidence. GH activates pathways related with oncogenesis not only by the activation of its specific receptor, but also by transactivation and regulation of the expression of the epidermal growth factor recep...

Introducción: Thyroid nodule is a very frequent pathology that affects 4-8% of population. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) guided by ultrasound (US) is considered the gold standard test in diagnostic evaluation of thyroid nodules. This technique is being assumed more and more frequently by endocrinologists.Description of Methods: We conducted a retrospective study that included all thyroid US-guided FNA performed in 2014. We considered the following va...