Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aim: Adrenal incidentalomas are discovered incidentally. Incidence has been increasing proportionally to the use of radiographic imaging. We aimed to evaluate patients with adrenal incidentalomas demographically.Subjects and methods: This study was performed between January 2010 and February 2013. Total 320 patients (55.4±11.7 years) with adrenal incidentaloma (86 (26.8%) male (55.2±11.6 years) and 234 (73.1%) female (56.2±1...

Background and aim: Incidence of adrenal incidentaloma is increasing proportionally to the use of radiographic imaging and there were two questions that whether malignant or functional. We aimed to evaluate patients with adrenal incidentalomas in terms of malignancy.Subjects and methods: This study was performed between 2010 and 2013. From 320 patients with adrenal incidentaloma, total 52 patients who underwent surgical intervetion were evaluated. Indica...

Background and aim: Differentiated thyroid cancers are the most common endocrine cancer types. They are more common in women, but the prognosis tends to be poorer with men. We aimed to evaluate male and female patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.Subjects and methods: This retrospective study was performed in last 5 yearly hospital records of our hospital. All data about the patients’ conditions were obtained from hospital information system ...

Background and aims: Pheochromocytomas arise from chromaffin cells of adrenal medulla and sympathetic ganglia. It occurs in about 0.05 to 0.1% of patients with sustained hypertension. It is considered that about half the patients with pheochromocytoma have only paroxysmal hypertension. Pheochromocytoma is usually suggested by the history in a symptomatic patient, discovery of an incidental adrenal mass, or the family history in a patient with familial disease. We retrospective...